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...legendary in the West: pure opium. The drug is grown mainly by the hill tribes who came south from Yunnan, China, in the last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe loads he prepares for foreigners, that nets him a profit...
...made PT boats, including John Kennedy's PT-109. The company went out of business after the war, was revived in 1988, and a few years ago was bought by Chuck Houghton, who now turns out electric boats (old design, new battery technology) in a small factory in Highland, New York, across the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie...
...woman. Her husband MICHAEL JORDAN lives in Chicago, works for a team in Washington and jets all over the world playing golf and doing business. Now Michael has invited a friend, CHARLES BARKLEY, to stay at the house for a while. Barkley says he's moving into the Jordans' Highland Park, Ill., home so the two former Dream Team-ers can train together, drop weight and determine by the end of June whether they are in any kind of condition to return to the NBA, presumably for the god-awful but Jordan-run Washington Wizards. Barkley proudly claims that...
...from Central St. Martin's in 1992. By then, he'd already spent seven years as an apprentice on Savile Row - and he was still only 23 years old. His first collections were designed more to attract attention than anything else. They did. With names like "The Birds" and "Highland Rape" it was hard not to. The showmanship would have fallen flat, if not for McQueen's extraordinary talent. "The collection itself had more ideas than all the other runways in London combined," said a critic after McQueen's spring 1996 show. Isabella Blow famously bought his entire first collection...
...true in many places in the world, only serve to condemn more adults and children to suffering and death. I'm extremely angry that the world decries the symptoms but is not solving the underlying problems. These African women experience human rights violations every day of their lives. LYNN HIGHLAND Morrison, Colo...