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They’re Paving Paradise, Again

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Feb 09, 2008
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The high-pitched whine of a power saw cutting through wood never seems to stop in Bali, with the island caught in a full-swing villa craze for investment or vacation homes, to the point where it is starting to shake the close-knit fabric of Balinese society.

For 80 years since the 1920s, when the first crop of western mystics washed up on its shores, vis…

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