Word: ko
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...Chinese pair of Yang Yangs. Yang Yang (S) banged into the side with four laps to go while Yang Yang (A) proved to be all Yin and never threatened. Instead, the race was won by the only athletes so far to truly claim an event for Asia, Koreans Ko Gi-Hyun, who took gold and at 15 became the youngest ever winner, and Choi Eun-Kyung, who smashed the Olympic record by six seconds in the semis. "Olympic athletes used to be role models," seethes Yosuke Yamaguchi, a former physical education instructor in Tokyo. "Now they're part athletes, part...
...century of hostility on the peninsula?and give Kim an opportunity to salvage his presidency. But he'll have to shore up his home base first. Even in Mok'po, the port city in Cholla where he got his political start, he is no longer a hero. Just ask Ko Seong Ju. More than 50 years ago, Ko worked the printing press for a local newspaper that Kim was running. Kim once gave him a ride along the beach in a jeep, a thrill at a time when few people in the country had cars. Despite the fond memories, Ko...
...Opium No. 1, okay?" she tells him, pointing at the black goop wrapped in wax paper. "I don't want No. 2. That makes me headachy." She came here after a few months in Thailand where she did the usual: raving at full-moon parties down in Ko Pha-Ngan, trekking in the hills around Chiang Mai. Along with three other travelers, she crossed from Thailand into Laos at Chiang Khong and then caught a boat down the Mekong. She had never tried opium before coming to Laos, and she had told herself back in Epsom, England, she would never...
...Oasis is among the first establishments of its kind in Vang Viang?a casually vibed hangout where foreigners can smoke ganja, drink beer and listen to early '90s house music. It's the sort of place you might expect to find on Khao San Road in Bangkok or in Ko Samui?and its appearance along with a few Internet caf?s means Vang Viang is in the initial throes of a tourism boom. Indeed, the first video bar has opened down the street. Martin Dillon hasn't even named his joint yet. But as the twentysomething Englishman sits on a brown...
...Fitz, who is fresh from going to see the dragon, sits in the back of Dillon's restaurant, rolling a joint. There's a full-moon party in 10 days down in Ko Pha-Ngan, Thailand, three days by bus, train and boat from here. He swears he's going to be there. He needs a fresh visa for Laos anyway. What about the opium? Can he go that long without seeing the dragon...