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...then, there's plenty of tenacity in the country these days. You can see it in the smooth, blacktop highways and freshly paved mountain passes of the new Vietnam. Step off them for a short while and you might encounter the old, glimpsing rain clouds rolling over banana plantations, with miles of jungle all around. And you can always run into recent history-outside Khe Sanh, we find a remnant of the old trail, untouched for decades and made up of 10 kilometers of jagged rock that's hell to drive, even on a Minsk...
...just five years ago. It's part of the price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga. The government has started to treat motorcycles like dangerous drugs. It wants to curtail the blacktop carnage by cutting off the supply?imposing stiff import quotas on motorcycle manufacturers operating in the communist country...
...Salt Lake City for being polygamous, Green moved to the Snake Valley desert in 1995. His family lives in a complex of battered trailers surrounded by wrecked cars and used tires. It is 100 miles to the nearest hospital or grocery store and 55 miles to the nearest blacktop road. At the local school, in Partoun, 80% of the children come from polygamous families. Green's 25 children--one boy died in a house fire in 1997--are between 2 1/2 and 14 years old. For study and play they are divided into five teams...