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...entrail reading. The Cultural Revolution obliterated mainland China's opium scene. Hong Kong's last opium den shut down in the '70s, and even famously dissolute Bangkok is reportedly bereft of a working opium den, the pipes consigned to antique stalls at the Saturday flea markets. The fast-lane kids of Asia's supercities prefer to get their kicks smoking speed or swallowing Es. Opium is grandpa's drug...
Forum, while an ensemble piece, also has an indisputable leading player, Pseudolus, who has been enthusiastically tackled on Broadway by comic greats ranging from Zero Mostel to Phil Silvers to Nathan Lane...
...plucked from an island resort a few days before. But commanders dropped the ball big time. Sometime before dawn the following day, the 200 Abu Sayyaf fighters escaped through the rear wall of the hospital and church compound. One Lamitan woman, awakened by the sound of footsteps in the lane, peered out to see the guerrillas stalking by. "They just walked away with their hostages," she later said. "Nobody challenged them...
...drifted left, towards me, and for the first time in my life, my unfortunate and paranoid tendency to drive with one hand hovering over the car horn actually came in handy. I let loose with a nice, long warning. The wayward car drifted away from me, back into its lane. Then, just as suddenly, it eased over to its right, only to be greeted with a similar cacophony from cars in that lane...
...Paso's spray planes "accidentally" crossed the border to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. To reduce air pollution, El Paso is helping Juarez brickmakers redesign their kilns. And to eliminate the epic waits at border crossings, businessmen (from both sides of the border) fought for--and won--a "fast lane" for U.S. and Mexican citizens who are precleared by U.S. law enforcement agencies...