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Daniel S. Mun, commonly known as “Dong,” was last seen around 4:15 a.m. on Dec. 5 as he left his bedroom to use the bathroom at his Chi Phi fraternity house on Hereford Street in Boston, Tom Holtey, treasurer of Chi Phi’s alumni board, said yesterday...
...Beijing: Beijing Shadow Troupe Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and cafés of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended; tel: (86-135) 6303 6667 Dubai: Wild Wadi At this Arabian Nights-themed water park, Western teenagers in bikinis and Arab girls in modest swimwear enjoy simulated white-water rapids, tidal waves and underground rivers. The brave shoot down the Jumeirah Sceirah...
...BEIJING: BEIJING SHADOW TROUPE Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and caf?s of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended...
...Dong Loc also has a shrine to a legendary platoon of vanguard women-all in their teens or early 20s-who died in one bombing in 1968. The 10 girls famously refused to let the hardship of war ruin their looks, washing their hair with paste from bo ket seeds and sharing combs and mirrors. If they were American, there would have been a TV series based on them. On each grave, there is a photo of a smiling girl wearing her battle helmet. Pilgrims have left offerings of plastic combs and compacts. Mr. Truong buys incense sticks and invites...
...Traveling toward what was once the demilitarized zone, our supply jeep is stopped by police, who demand 100,000 dong (about $7) to let us continue. Mr. Truong is reflective. "Corruption is a problem in our country," he admits. Still, moving around is easier than it used to be. Mr. Truong remembers when even ordinary Vietnamese needed permission to leave their villages-before the 1986 doi moi reforms that slowly opened up the country. "Now we have a better life," he says...