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Article: Recovering paradise lost: a bustling Bali on upswing
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- International Herald Tribune
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- April 1, 2005
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Denny Lee
International Herald Tribune
04-01-2005
Stumbling down Legian Street on Bali on a humid Tuesday night, Tim Picken had a buddy on one arm and a beer on the other. He poked his head into a T-shirt shop and shared a joke about the cheap prices. Then, before he ducked into another bar along this neon-and-booze strip in Kuta, Picken stopped laughing for a few moments to pay his respects. No wider than a tennis court and no longer than a bowling alley, the site, at the headwaters of the bustling street, was littered with weeds and easy to miss. There were no official tributes just a wooden sign, in Bahasa Bali, warning visitors not to trespass. ''It was mostly Australians my age who ...