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...Hammer figured a wedding at home in Houston would be a logistical nightmare. Between siblings and stepsiblings, the wedding party would balloon to 15 people, the full wedding to 300--and the event, they estimated, would set them back $30,000 or more. The Hammers chose instead to wed barefoot on Smathers Beach in Key West, Fla., in front of 72 close friends and family members, for one-third the cost. "No matter where we had a wedding, half my family would have had to travel," says David, 28. "Why not have everyone take off for a week to somewhere...
...know the country so well. I remember I arrived in the city and they were having this beautiful festival, and I was the only real ‘outsider.’ That whole day was a rush. I was running around barefoot taking all these pictures...
...course, not all the bingo players are queer. Many people attend the event simply for the fun it promises or, like Jonathan M. Bloom ’04, they have come to show support as allies. Barefoot in a slinky spaghetti-strap dress, Bloom says that he is “not queer-identified,” but attended the event knowing that he risked being labeled “gay” anyway...
...committed to openly reporting SARS cases, the region remains susceptible to an outbreak of this treacherously elusive disease. Only 50% of Inner Mongolian residents use the local hospital system, according to the regional health department. Instead, medicine is dispensed by tiny, ill-equipped clinics or a ragged team of barefoot doctors, who often have little more than an elementary-school education. Wei Guo, a second-generation barefoot doctor in the village of Shuiqu, says he knows what to do if he encounters any SARS cases. He will prescribe a popular traditional remedy called banlangen, a dose of antibiotics and perhaps...
...truly desperate men--a thin line of conscripts, many of them drawn from Shi'ite and Kurdish communities that despise Saddam. Kuwaiti guards report that when Iraqi soldiers swarmed across the border 12 1/2 years ago and began a seven-month looting spree, the first stop for the occasionally barefoot Iraqis was not the luxury-car dealers but the food stores. And back then they were better looked after. Last year an Iraqi border guard fled to Kuwait and pleaded, "Take me anywhere. Do anything to me. Just don't send me back...