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...Chit station (before the rail system was built, it took an hour to get here from downtown). And as Mo Chit is the northern terminus of the Sukhumvit line, you've got a good chance of a seat?plus you'll also avoid the City of Angels' hellish traffic snarls...
...packed up my bags in Cambridge and flew to Atlanta just over five weeks ago, bleary-eyed from a hellish semester and determined to have the Best and Most Adventurous Summer Ever. It was my first journey below the Mason-Dixon line beyond the typical family Disney World trip. Like Ponce de Leon, I began a Southern quest for eternal youth, hoping to discover a new place—and reinvent myself...
...real drama lies in whether Craig and Raina will have sex. Self-conscious, filled with associations of sex with abuse and punishment - hellish flames lick the background as he puts on his pajamas - Craig feels deeply conflicted. Thompson does a wonderful job of recreating the chemistry between the nurturing Raina and the lonely Craig. You can feel that special, adolescent magnetism that comes from two alienated teenagers. In a key moment, Raina gives Craig a crazy-quilt blanket that she made. In return she asks him to paint a mural on her bedroom wall. In Raina, Craig finds his muse...
...stay secret forever. Tong Yi, a New York City-based lawyer and human-rights activist who did time in both a re-education labor camp in her native Wuhan and in Beijing's main C.-and-R. center before being granted political asylum in the U.S., describes hellish scenes of healthy children and adults and the mentally ill locked up together. "Life in the center was chaotic and filthy," she recalls. "There was no drinking water, just a faucet for 100 people, and food was even more scarce and of lower quality than in my labor camp." Beatings by center...
...pets get sick, as did Charlie, whether or not you have the time to deal with it. It was a respiratory infection. The treatment: two sets of seven shots. One has not experienced the true hellish potential of dormlife until one has spent the night before two final exams chasing a four-foot long ball python with a syringe hanging out of its abdomen around a dorm room. Charlie was not amused. Neither was I. After 12 more shots, hundreds of dollars on vet bills and many subway trips to the vet hospital with a snake poking around my backpack...