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...result, many students decided to abandon their dorm rooms and instead try to take advantage of what air conditioning was available...
...stay a day or two but then find they are unable to leave. What keeps them in Vang Viang? For some, it is an idyllic landscape with jagged limestone karsts towering over the languorous Nam Xong river. But what more of these kids are finding so hard to abandon is the lifestyle of limitless freedom and cheap, plentiful drugs. "You can do anything you want here," says David Constantine, 22, an Italian from a Milanese suburb. "Go hiking in the hills, explore a cave, have a few pipes, smoke dope in your room all day. Whatever...
...forge a new relationship with another adult are at opposite ends of the spectrum of human experience. Any mother who has reflexively reached over and cut her date's meal into toddler-size pieces knows she has a long distance to travel between Happy Meals and nights of passionate abandon. And fathers who hire a baby sitter in order to get out for an occasional blind date--aware they will have to pay twice for the evening--realize that being "out there" isn't as free or easy as it was the last time they were single...
...asked by his boss at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go xia hai--literally, "jump into the sea"--abandon research and launch a computer company. Last month that company, Legend Holdings, partnered with AOL Time Warner (parent of TIME) to expand Internet service in China. With Legend granted a 51% stake in the venture, Liu, 56, appears poised to lead the opening of a massive Net market...
...tiny fraction of that throng gathered last Thursday night outside the Belgrade prison where Milosevic had been held since April, chanting "Slobo, Slobo, we will never abandon you." Milosevic's wife Mira and his daughter-in-law Milica Gajic were there, too, waiting silently in a green...