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...least 16 Filipinas have escaped from bars near Tongduchon since June, bringing with them similar horror stories. Official statistics show 5,000 women have been trafficked in Korea since the mid-'90s, but human-rights groups says the real figure is much higher. More than 8,500 foreign women entered Korea last year on "entertainment" visas, mostly Filipinas and Russians. These visas are a tool for international trafficking, says Goh Hyun Ung, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration: "The women don't know they are going to be locked up as soon as they get to clubs...
...race the way we want," said Postie Viatcheslav Ekimov, a 36-year-old Russian who was riding in his 12th Tour and helping Armstrong to victory for the third time. "But that's become more difficult. It used to be that the yellow jersey was respected. In the '90s, for example, if there was any word from the yellow jersey that we should take it easy today, everyone just agreed. But now there are a lot of young riders with ambition. So everybody tries to take his chance. Now, all the last stages just scare me. We know...
...save more and returns improved, you would get to the $1 million mark faster than on that grim schedule. But it adds up to a dramatic shift in your plans and dreams. "It's almost impossible to overstate how many people thought that the booming stock market of the '90s would continue indefinitely," says John Rother, policy director at the retiree-advocacy group AARP...
...return zippo for five more years, except for an annual dividend of less than 2%. This assessment may prove too pessimistic. The recession depressed earnings; a robust recovery could drive them higher faster. But there's no realistic scenario in which stocks resume and sustain anything close to their '90s trajectory...
...white sand, unblemished by footprints. Given the conflicting demands for laid-back escape and sumptuous lodging, nowhere has managed the mix better than Thailand. In the 1970s it was Pattaya. The 1980s: Phuket. Resorts by the score are already pining to supplant Ko Samui, favored destination of the '90s. Yet the victor may not be another idyllic Ko Samui wannabe, but a genuine blast from the past...