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...your main course, head to the shopping district near the Caravelle Hotel for another savory delight - on Nguyen Thiep street, you'll find hawkers selling banh goi. This spicy pastry pillow, also 30?, is filled with minced pork, deep-fried while you wait, and served in a newspaper wrapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courses in Economics | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...Ready for mains? Head to the shopping district near the Caravelle Hotel for another savory delight-on Nguyen Thiep street, you'll find hawkers selling banh goi. This spicy pastry pillow, also $0.30, is filled with minced pork, deep-fried while you wait, and is served in a newspaper wrapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amuse Bouche | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...Rondonia territory. After Von Puttkamer had befriended the tribesmen and learned their language, they led him to three secret caves decorated with mysterious markings. Recognizing the possible significance of the site, Von Puttkamer decided to call in expert help: Anthropologist Altair Sales of the Catholic University of Goiás. After exploring the caverns and questioning the Indians about them, Sales emerged from the jungle with an astonishing conclusion: the caves, he says, were inhabited long ago by warlike women remarkably similar to those described by Francisco de Orellana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Women's Lib, Amazon Style | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

Being a Vietnamese, my basic education has been directed under these four most important laws: "hoc an, hoc noi, hoc goi, hoc mo," which means that I am supposed to learn to eat, to learn how to say things, to learn how to wrap up the things I have to say, and to learn to open up the things that others have wrapped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergrad from Vietnam Spots Traditions in War | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Like Pavlov's dog, people learn to react to cables, and too often their reflexes are conditioned so that they react to little else. In obscure acronyms, the cables announce that GOI (the Government of India, or Ireland, or Italy, depending on the date line somewhere in the hieroglyphics at the top of the page) has just taken the following action, or that GOT (the Government of Tanzania, or Turkey, or Transylvania) is about to take the following action, unless USG (backwards for the Government of the United States) does something about it. Sooner or later, the faithful cable reader...

Author: By Adam Yarmolinsky, | Title: More Than Asking Embarrassing Questions | 3/1/1967 | See Source »

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