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...many others in North Korea?depended on cleverly working the system. He extended his $120-a-month income by trading black-market currency with other foreigners. He made contacts who could smuggle him the occasional English-language novel or Hollywood movie. He rigged a radio to pick up the BBC and Voice of America. He even managed to buy a handgun from a Chinese exchange student. But such liberties extended only so far: even when Jenkins and his family got their hands on a Western videotape, they had to take precautions, pulling the curtains over their windows and turning...
...since grown into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, with six printings and total sales of almost 50,000 copies. Since the book's European launch during the summer, international sales have reached some 10,000 copies, mostly in Britain; Starsky and Cox are in discussion with the BBC about developing a companion TV series. "Sextrology tells you everything you ever needed to know about your other half?but were afraid to ask," says BBC producer Sally Lisk-Lewis. The authors have also sold Russian, German and Spanish rights to the book. In France, even without a French translation, the Parisian...
...Sources: BBC; New York Times (3); NBA.com Los Angeles Times; Reuters
...them see the light ... again." In reality, Africa is a huge continent where most people are not starving; where over the past decade democracy has begun to take hold and Africans have started to grapple with their own problems; and where more than 90% of respondents to a recent BBC poll said they were proud to be African. Ethiopia itself has changed. It's more democratic, it's attracting investment and it's better prepared to face the periodic droughts that suck it dry. Sure, Africa has plenty of troubles: war, droughts, poverty and ethnic clashes, but Do They Know...
...since grown into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, with six printings and total sales of almost 50,000 copies. Since the book's European launch during the summer, international sales have reached some 10,000 copies, mostly in Britain; Starsky and Cox are in discussion with the BBC about developing a companion TV series. "Sextrology tells you everything you ever needed to know about your other half - but were afraid to ask," says BBC producer Sally Lisk-Lewis. The authors have also sold Russian, German and Spanish rights to the book. In France, even without a French translation, the Parisian...