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Death in the Fast Lane...
These country girls have eyes like hunters, says the cab driver, turning into an unlit lane of liquidambar trees in Kunming's Golden Star neighborhood. "They can easily spot the men wanting sex." The taxi pulls over, and a young woman sashays out from behind the trees. She's wearing a cherry-colored blouse, tight white slacks and a cloud of cloying perfume. Her name is Little Jade, and she behaves less like a predator than prey, glancing nervously up and down the lane for cops - and, with equal apprehension, at the taxi's passengers...
...because if it turns out she is infected, the clinic would be obliged to tell the authorities. She would be detained because she traveled to Kunming, capital of China's Yunnan province, without the required work papers. Now she sells herself for $17 to men who pass along this lane like gray, restless shadows. She knows that AIDS can kill her, slowly and hideously. "If I get AIDS, I'll go far, far away," she vows. "I'd rather die than shame my mother and father with this. They think I'm a hairdresser...
...final minutes, Ford took over, scoring 15 of Cambridge's final 17 points. The Falcons' All-Scholastic captain, this year's GBL Most Valuable Player, was all over the place, making steals, diving on the floor, shooting, passing and driving straight down the court to get clobbered in the lane by Holy Name players a foot taller than himself...
...Peljto is a more explosive, athletic player who can drive or shoot the three with equal ease, often drawing the opponents' big players out to the perimeter and opening up the paint for a teammate or a drive down the lane for herself...