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...least I know I won't have to bring my tooth brush [on Friday]," Okhotin joked, referring to his minister's advice before the last hearing that he come prepared to be taken to prison...
...nightlife. Beautiful young girls in short dresses are dancing to techno with their boyfriends at the Water Bar disco in Chinatown on a Saturday night, right next to a group of funky gay Asians, while a more mature Caucasian in black is doing Mick Jagger imitations with a tall, brush-cut young Chinese in baggy jeans. But wander over to Taboo, the must-go, packed-out gay disco on Tanjong Pagar, and you will find a bevy of gay teenagers from every race bopping on a podium in the corner and half the room full of guys with their...
...restitution, documents show. The second time, according to court records, Aulaqi pleaded guilty to soliciting a prostitute and was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $240 and ordered to perform 12 days of community service. Aulaqi - who declined through an intermediary to comment for this story - had another brush with law enforcement when he was interviewed several times by FBI agents investigating 9/11. Says one official: "It was like pullling teeth." But with no evidence of criminal activity, the FBI could not prevent him from leaving the United States...
...Sugar Pine Recreation Area in California's Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on this cool July morning. A platoon of camouflaged figures equipped with rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests creep through manzanita brush with a police dog. Their objective: a marijuana plantation a few hundred yards from a well-traveled tourist area...
...then came SARS. Unlike previous crises, which remained relatively focused in their impact, the contagion tarred every destination in East Asia with the same brush. In the late 1990s, Thailand and Hong Kong benefited from Indonesia's turmoil as travelers went to those two places in search of a safe haven. But with SARS, everybody lost. Although Thailand and Indonesia were virtually untouched by the virus, they suffered almost equally with the worst-hit destinations...