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...sidewalk outside Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport a crowd is milling in front of the overseas-worker processing office. Dozens of families - some red-eyed, others laughing - hang around, trying to draw out their last moments together. "This is normal," says Amie S. Catigbe, who has just parted with her sister again. "Everybody hugging, crying." She winces. "Sad." On the tarmac, planes are ready to scatter families to Dubai, to London, to Rome, to Hong Kong. Women sit in window seats, bracing themselves for another year, or another three years. As night falls, they watch Manila spread out beneath...
Presidents, Harry Truman placed his THE BUCK STOPS HERE SIGN (the reverse read I'M FROM MISSOURI). And while its darker hours saw Richard Nixon's secret taping sessions and, in adjoining rooms, Bill Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinsky, the Oval Office is where the President comes to draw the nation together--as Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster, or George W. Bush after 9/11...
...these are the same idiots who bought countless cans and bottles of “pizza” last year in exchange for forged Pinocchio’s receipts. Believe us: no matter how many kids are snorkeling in Mongolia, you still are neither funny nor interesting enough to draw people to your party without the prospect of a drunken hook-up. So steal an empty bottle of Grey Goose from your rich neighbor’s recycleing bin and pour your prison-inspired, fermented grapefruit juice moonshine into it. Freshman biddies eat that stuff...
...your own home-bathroom spa, try Masada's Relaxing Foot Bath kit, which comes with a jar of minty antibacterial foot cream, two packs of soaking salts and a surprisingly luxurious inflatable foot bath, with a pump.) The salts come in four varieties, including eucalyptus, which is supposed to draw out toxins. I don't know if it did, but I was pleased that it did battle with my calluses. Price: less than $3 each for soaking salts; $33 for foot bath...
...Chen's arrest comes at a sensitive political moment in Taiwan. A top Chinese envoy came to Taiwan last week to sign landmark trade pacts, a historic visit that was marred by violent protests from opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters who are wary of any moves to draw closer to China. Over a hundred people were injured in five days of chaos...