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...Barnhill, in particular, has had to bridge an ever-widening gap. Friends from his block now have children; many didn’t even make it out of high school. Meanwhile, Barnhill got into Harvard, and then the Spee...
...first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s - at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto. Onie recalls listening to Guns N' Roses and boy band New Kids on the Block and never feeling a real connection with the music. "Then an Indonesian friend told me that I had to listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and I loved it," he says. Punk soon proliferated as rapidly as cassette duplicates of the albums could be made...
...Growing up in the East Side of Detroit—regularly ranked among America’s most dangerous cities—Barnhill knew which houses to avoid: the abandoned building next door, the house down the block where the crack addicts gathered to buy drugs. Many windows on the street were shattered...
...longest time,” Barnhill says, “I thought the entire world looked like my block...
...Despite the danger, however, most Vietnamese have resisted pleas to wear helmets, dubbing them "rice cookers" and complaining that they're too hot, uncomfortable and even that they block the peripheral vision crucial to navigating split-second swerves. And many doubt the government will be able to enforce its new helmet law. "They may put an officer at every intersection, but for every policeman there are thousands of motorcycles," says Nhung, 20, Van's friend. "How can police catch them...