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...medical ban is lifted; the social stain may take longer to disappear...
Luckily, aside from a few dissenters who would rather get rich quick, most locals seem to welcome the World Heritage status and the protection from rapacious development it confers. "I think it's a good thing," says Mae Ouay Kum Lek, 86, owner of Ban Xieng Mouane, a 150-year-old teakwood home that's now a unesco-sponsored "Heritage House." She smiles. "And a nice young man from unesco gives me $50 every month...
...government-run hotel?on Thanon Phothisalat, Ban Wat That, tel: (856-71) 212-200 for reservations?renovated under French supervision in 1995, was once the official residence of the late Prince Souvanna Phouma (the end "a" was apparently dropped from the hotel's name at the government's insistence, so as not to "evoke the monarchy"). During the political storms that wracked the country before the communist takeover in 1975, Souvanna Phouma served twice, albeit briefly, as Prime Minister. He was also, in the late 1950s, Laos' ambassador to France...
...ancient Lao art of making saa paper?thick, textured cardlike sheets made from mulberry bark. Light shades and lamps in breathtakingly beautiful colors are the best-selling items, but there are also greeting cards and wall hangings on offer. Or take a 15-minute tuk tuk ride to Ban Sangkong, on the town's outskirts, where you can watch the paper being made...
...pacifiers from their customers instead of the normally requested mouth swabs. The majority of labs will also use these personal effects to extract DNA samples. Because he considers surreptitious genetic fingerprinting "a massive invasion of personal privacy," Joachim Jacob, Germany's Commissioner for Data Protection, is moving to ban DNA paternity tests. It's unfair that "the unauthorized opening of a letter is a criminal offense, while clandestine paternity tests are not," he says. "Just imagine a mother-in-law has a suspicion and endangers the whole family structure...