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...STARTED After prices on eBay rose for old models, toymakers created exact replicas...
...Vang Viang, that has meant a leap in the number of guesthouses from three in 1999 to more than 35 today. No one tracks the exact number of tourists coming through town each season, but the village chief, Phet Hinthapatha, estimates the increase is something like 100% a year. He believes the foreigners are having a positive impact in a town that as late as 1998 was getting no tourists. "Look at all the stuff we can sell them," says the chief, sitting shirtless on a wooden bench, flicking at a wasp with a loose sarong. "Food, skirts, backpacks, toilet...
...least its sweaty-knockin’-boots-meet-me-in-the-back-alley step-cousin lust, was waiting just around the corner. (At the intersection of “I will always love you” and “Me so horny,” to be exact.) I had fooled myself into thinking that a summer at Harvard would be equivalent to a summer of love: same familiar location, wild-dog-in-heat weather and international summer school men—er...students—jaunting through the Square that had been filled only a few months earlier...
...claims, however, that such lists are about money, not quality. While he refuses to discuss the exact methodology of rankyourcollege.com, he hints that it randomly generates a list of schools weighted towards their per capita endowment—which he says might just be the same formula other rankings...
...hard to say - it?s tough to find exact data on that. Places where there are only mail-in ballots and therefore less of a time constraint, like Oregon, have had very good results...