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...Carlsbad, Calif., toy marketer Leslie Crouch packaged its components under the title It's Bunco Time!!! and started marketing it to women. Now, on any given night, groups all over the country gather together in what has become the female bonding experience of the moment. In Contra Costa County, Calif., women's bunco games rival bridge parties in popularity. In Garden City, N.Y., 10 new bunco groups have started in the past two years, with waiting lists of women eager to get in on a monthly game. Like reading groups, Tupperware parties and quilting bees before them, bunco games give...
...class of traveler: backpackers--precisely the group targeted in the Bali attack. Few modern social developments are more significant and less appreciated than the rise of backpacker travel. The tens of thousands of young Australians, Germans, Britons, Americans and others who wander the globe, flitting from Goa to Costa Rica, from Thailand to Tasmania, are building what may be the only example of a truly global community. Nobody has an accurate way of guessing the size of the backpacker market, but the growth of the Lonely Planet brand offers somewhat of a proxy. The first Lonely Planet guidebook was stapled...
Let’s Go currently publishes 41 student-written travel guides—including new guides this year on Chile, Costa Rica, Hawaii and Thailand...
...Casa Pia, the country's biggest school for deprived children. Families Minister Felix Bagão sacked the school's administration, and its employee Carlos Silvino was arrested and charged with being a pedophile and using children for prostitution. The announcement followed claims by former Families Minister Maria Teresa Costa Machado that Silvino procured children for a ring of top people including diplomats, journalists and society figures. Machado said she drew police attention to the allegations in 1982 but the investigation was dropped in 1987, with evidence and statements from alleged victims destroyed. BELGIUM Race Riot Police charged Dyab...
...finally decided to take a leave from Harvard following the winter recess and has been living at home in Costa Mesa, Calif. ever since...