Vichit meets Chatchai, an old friend from high school, at a conference. He asks Chatchai during coffee break: "Why do you look so serious? What's on your mind?"

Have you ever noticed the distinct way people from around the world communicate? Whether it is the language we use or the way we use it, each of us has a different communication style that has been influenced by where we are from.

The Japanese surfing scene in Australia has always fascinated Anthony Lucas Smith. Leaving his love for the surf behind in Australia at the end of the 1980s to find out more about Japan, the 41-year-old has built a career exploring the merging of these particular cultural waves.

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From April 8 until June 19, the Kunsthaus in Zürich presents works by Sigmar Polke (born 1941) with many new works and a series of large-format compositions painted especially for this exhibition.

The winners of the 64th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. This year's 32 programs, chosen as the best in electronic media for 2004, were named in a ceremony that took place at New York's Museum of Television & Radio.

Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.

Sponsor: Centenary College. Open to: high school freshmen and sophomores. Dates: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday-Friday, June 13-17 (session one) and 20-24 (session two).

WASHINGTON -- "Where are the Paul Reveres? The George Washingtons?" a Marine Corps captain asked rhetorically last year in Ramadi, Iraq. It was a question borne of frustration at the local populace. Why, when they were the ones increasingly dying at the hands of insurgents, did they not fight back?

SKOPJE (ANA - N. Fragopoulou) The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) chief Javier Solana on Tuesday expressed hope that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will accept a United Nations proposal for resolving the outstanding dispute with Greece over the republic's use of the name 'Macedonia', sources said.