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Pornography peddlers are restricted by Boston law to sell their wares only along a stretch of Washington Street between the Downtown Crossing and Chinatown subway stops, a section of the city known as the "Combat Zone...
Times are changing, though, and the expansion of shopping centers near DowntownCrossing coupled with Chinatown business "growingby leaps and bounds" has put the squeeze on theCombat Zone from both sides, driving up rents forthe strip clubs and erotic shops, Quinn says...
...Chinatown's expansion into the Combat Zone ischanging the role of the ethnic center as well asthe pornography zone, according to Paul H.M. Lee,a member of the Chinese Economic DevelopmentCouncil, the first federally-funded organizationthat supplies affordable housing and office spaceto Asian-American businesses...
...buffet was catered by the Peach Farm Restaurant in Chinatown, and courses represented a range of Asian dishes, from King Tou's Spare Ribs to Singapore Style Rice Noodles...
...educational initiatives were announced, a white paper or two presented, but mostly what there was was talk. "That's Washington," sighed a frustrated, nonnative participant, resigned to cruel geographic determinism like Jack Nicholson at the end of Chinatown. In a series of speeches and panels stretching over a long day and a half, speaker after speaker made the same unassailable points: children should be protected from pornographic Websites and chat room-lurking pedophiles; parents need to be "empowered" to deal with these issues; the Internet is nevertheless a wonderful tool; it is the medium of the 21st century; the 21st...