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...state of Wyoming," says de Vries. "The thing that happened when Matt was murdered was that for the first time, I think, the state as a whole was forced to realize that there were gay people living here... Among gay people, the reactions were so far apart: some people dove back into the closet under the laundry. Other people said, 'Screw it; I'm coming...
...once hawked our inner dove and waxed sensitive about internationalism, religious toleration and cooperative engagement. We resisted missile shields and proto-authoritarian conformity. And, sometimes, we forced voters to see the link between taxes and services, between economic stagnation and the Iraq quagmire and between present sacrifice and future rewards...
...been a bumpy flight since the firm's 1999 launch. Its NASDAQ shares dove 95%, from $43 in 2000 to $2 in 2001. What helped e-bookers evade the fate of so many that failed? "We built a website around a business," answers Dhamija. "We didn't build a business around a website." E-bookers makes 30% of its sales through shops and call centers. Dhamija, who came to Britain from India in 1968, set up a discount-travel shop in London in 1980. His knowledge of the industry, not technowizardry, was the basis of e-bookers' success. To avoid...
...screech rends the steamy, tropical air. Chatuchak is notorious for the exotic wildlife on sale, but the wailing is coming from the Ya Shop. Here, staff take turns in belting out tunes via a karaoke system, and a kid of about 12, decked out in 1970s Elvis shades, tight, dove-gray slacks and a snow-white Kangol cap, is happily murdering Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Ya Shop stocks the widest range of cheesy, fitted polyester shirts in Chatuchak (from 100 baht, or $2.50, upwards). But rather than rely exclusively on the lure of synthetic fabrics...
...Blood then took the stick, punched it forward and dove us to 1,000 ft, where he activated the TF (terrain-following) radar program. He instructed me to take control again, but to only gently guide the aircraft's direction and to "let the plane fly itself." True to its name, the program maintained a constant altitude, rising when we crossed mountains and dipping when we were over valleys. It was easy to imagine the value of such technology when flying low over a foreign land during conditions of poor visibility...