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...after Huy last spoke with TIME, a dozen police swooped into a Ho Chi Minh City Internet caf? and rearrested him. His brother, Tuan, thinks police followed him and Huy from their home to the caf?. "Huy was chatting on PalTalk when a big man in a white shirt came up and grabbed him around the neck," says Tuan, who was also arrested but released a day later. "They handcuffed Huy, and took us to two separate police stations." Huy hasn't been heard from since...
...doesn't have the cachet or name recognition of Myspace or Facebook, but in Brazil, Google's relationship site Orkut boasts a coverage that its more celebrated rivals cannot match. Almost half of Brazil's 32 million internet users have a profile on Orkut. Go to any cyber caf? in Rio de Janiero or Sao Paulo and wired youngsters will be leaving messages for friends, checking out potential dates and surfing through hundreds of thousands of communities, from the spiritual ("We love God"; 254,072 members), intellectual ("Addicted to books"; 46, 203 members) and physical...
...young fanatic attacked him, stabbing him in the neck. Mahfouz survived, but lost much of the use of his right-and writing-hand. (His attacker fared worse: he was hung.) In his later years Mahfouz himself took on the aura of a fictional character: a humble creature of the caf?s whose life was deeply embedded in his ancient neighborhood, who wrote over coffee on the banks of the Nile-he favored the Ali Baba Caf?-and bantered with friends and fellow writers, often watched over by government bodyguards safeguarding the national treasure...
...until that day at the beauty salon, I had ignored any hint of a return to 7th-century mores, preferring to savor a few extra weeks of denial before the government-issued burqa arrived at my doorstep. A month ago I met a few girlfriends for coffee at a caf? popular with young people. Upon lighting a cigarette, one of them was informed by the embarrassed owner that smoking is now illegal for women in caf?s. Now half the women I know don't go out for coffee anymore. An ingenious way of stifling Tehran's bustling caf? scene without...
...guest houses. For Karr, it was an inexpensive place to reside; apartments in his building rent for as little as $160 a month. Other residents describe him as a dour loner who didn't let anyone into his peripatetic life, traveling in and out of Thailand. An Internet caf? clerk in Karr's building said he was a regular customer who kept a close eye on users in neighboring booths, as if he was afraid they were spying on him. "He never wanted to chat," said Nii, the clerk. "Actually I was afraid of talking to him. He always seemed...