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...past, travelers had to hit the highlands to procure ruou, but it's now sold in some Hanoi bars, which are thronged with trendy Vietnamese and Westerners alike. One of the first, and still most popular, is Highway Four at 5 Hang Tre Street. Named after the famous scenic highway from Lang Son to Cao Bang in the north, the bar offers nearly every kind of ruou. Unlike the tea stall in Cao Bang market, however, Highway Four doesn't open until midday...
...Driving east down U.S. Highway 90, along the strip which connects Pass Christian to Pascagoula, the vast Gulf of Mexico looking tranquil as a lake on my right, I came to the memorial known as Eight Flags. Located on the Gulfport-Biloxi line, the site, which includes a Confederate flagpole, has been mired in controversy for over two years. Still at question is whether this Rebel flag is a thoughtful "heritage" salute to the Confederate dead or a racist affront to African-Americans. The NAACP has poured untold resources into banning the flag because the park is funded by taxpayer...
...base of the mountains, Highway 101 snakes around the Olympic peninsula following a silent, morose track through endless clear cuts. Coarse and hideous, with brush piled in heaps, the naked scars on the mountains emanate destruction and death. Here, the logging companies clear cut the land entirely, and then commence ‘sustainable logging practices,’ which entail replanting the tracts in rows of trees that grow until they are large enough to be cut again...
This is the battleground that executives in the Sierra Club probably never see: logging trucks barrel along the highway past greasy diners and gun shops. As major employers, the logging companies wield enormous power over locals, the state government and the Forest Service. So the loggers have no trouble purchasing public and private old-growth forests...
...night sky was overcast as I drove home along the turnpike, the trees along the highway a gauntlet of blackness. I enjoyed participating in the hunt. I felt that day a new understanding of the timeless exchange: death for life, sadness for joy, loss for satisfaction...