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...allow one extravagance: a tiny pair of camel-colored Italian suede shoes that I discovered at a Daffy's downtown. Reduced from $80 to $32, they seemed like a steal, and on the big day, they looked great with Conor's khakis and borrowed...
...Southeast Asia's largest flower farm, Dalat Hasfarm, thrives in Vietnam's central highlands, producing 500,000 stems a day for export. But the farm's 300 flower varieties aren't all that's blossoming in the cool mountain clime. In downtown Dalat, love is almost always in the air. Dalat has evolved into Vietnam's honeymoon capital. At hot spots like the scenic Valley of Love park and crescent-shaped Xuan Huong Lake, you'll find a lot of Disneyesque diversion, such as swan-shaped paddleboats. They may not be to everyone's taste, but there's no denying...
...festival. But "Shchekoch," as he is nicknamed, wasn't around to see the attack. The crusading journalist and politician had died under mysterious circumstances two days earlier. And last week, just five days after his funeral, another female suicide bomber was apprehended as she tried to enter a posh downtown Moscow restaurant. A bomb inside a rucksack she was carrying exploded in the street, killing a Federal Security Service officer who was trying to defuse it. Shchekoch would have taken no satisfaction in being proved right. Chechen attacks inside Russia are nothing new. In September 1999, over 300 people were...
...latest step in the Canadian drug war may just be surrender. National health officials last week approved the first legal "safe injection site" in North America. Heroin and cocaine users at the future facility in Vancouver's drug-riddled Downtown Eastside neighborhood, will be able to shoot up under the watchful eye of a nurse and then relax in a "chill-out room" without any interference from police. A Bush Administration official ripped the initiative as "state-sponsored suicide." But Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell, an ex--drug squad cop who championed the injection site, shoots back: "I think...
...Cost of a bed-size burial plot in downtown Tokyo's Aoyama Cemetery...