Word: nang
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...individuals have taken the lead. Early efforts to identify and measure dioxin levels at Agent Orange hot spots were undertaken by the U.S.-based Ford Foundation in the 1990s. Later, with technical assistance from the EPA, Ford "capped" the most contaminated section of what is now the Da Nang International Airport, installing a filtration system to stop dioxins from flowing into the city's water supply and building a wall to keep people from entering the area. At another abandoned U.S. air base in the Aluoi Valley, a Vietnamese botanist raised $25,000 in donations to plant cactus-like bushes...
...once known as the "Reunification Express," arguably serves up Southeast Asia's most luxuriant rural vistas. Four modern trains with air-conditioned double-decker carriages, and free meals to boot, depart Hanoi Station daily, arriving in Ho Chi Minh City 32 hours later. Stopping off in Nha Trang, Da Nang and Hué on your way are all options, but securing onward bookings can be difficult. Visit www.vr.com.vn for details. BEIJING-LHASA: One of the literal highs of a journey to the Middle Kingdom is the new Qinghai-Tibet railway, making it possible to go from the Chinese capital through...
...chillax. Don't go splashing your bust a grape mozzarella on Britneys, hench - pick up two new nang Richard Snaries. The dope Cassell's Dictionary of Slang is dropped on Nov. 17. Five days later hail the buttery New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian...
...Some of the children watched Burmese soldiers kill their parents," says Hku Hseng Lu, a fragile beauty with an indomitable air on which her young charges depend. Others died as porters, like Nang Nang's parents, or simply perished from disease. Medical treatment is either primitive or nonexistent in Shan state, which is also hardest-hit by the country's unchecked AIDS epidemic. Chris Beyrer, a leading AIDS expert at Johns Hopkins University, estimates that a staggering 9% of Shan men are HIV positive. "This is among the highest rates reported in Asia," he notes...
...Thai army has given the school and orphanage until the end of June to move. The other displaced Shan families are already building new homes on a denuded hillside, which is nearer to fortified enemy positions. "I'm very scared because now we're closer to the fighting," says Nang La, 40. "But where else can we go?" Armed with a hoe and a machete, she and her husband, Ka Ling, 38, are leveling a patch of earth on which to build their third house, mostly from materials salvaged from their second, which they dismantled when they had to leave...