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These country girls have eyes like hunters, says the cab driver, turning into an unlit lane of liquidambar trees in Kunming's Golden Star neighborhood. "They can easily spot the men wanting sex." The taxi pulls over, and a young woman sashays out from behind the trees. She's wearing a cherry-colored blouse, tight white slacks and a cloud of cloying perfume. Her name is Little Jade, and she behaves less like a predator than prey, glancing nervously up and down the lane for cops - and, with equal apprehension, at the taxi's passengers...
Finally, Little Jade slings herself into the taxi. But her legs are trembling from fear. And no matter how she tries to distract herself, by playing with her blue beaded necklace or with a stretchy piece of elastic hanging from the cab seat, Little Jade can't stop shaking. "I'm always a little scared," she says. "Sometimes, the men beat me up or they'll refuse to pay me after we have...
RETRACTABLE WEAPON STATION AND NIGHT VISION The night-vision camera rotates 360[degrees], and the laser-launching station responds to a joystick inside the cab...
...with a carburetor for 15 years, but Earnhardt drove one at Daytona. Certainly his Monte Carlo was a modified machine: its engine had been juiced to about 720 h.p.; its sheet-metal skin was lighter than a road-ready car's; its roll bars were designed to render the cab a fast-moving cage...
...that in the U.S. espionage does not mean just giving classified documents to foreign powers. It means giving documents relating to the national defense to foreign powers with the express intent of helping foreign powers or injuring the United States. So if you're caught getting into a cab with a briefcase full of classified documents, you won't be charged with espionage. And in this case, the tunnel charge could fall under that category - it's embarrassing because it failed, but because it failed it didn't produce much, so the government may decide there's not much point...