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...Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious no-go area of vice, violence and opium dens. Afterward, his guide, a young Triad member named Lau, gestures toward a pig being slaughtered in a nearby butcher shop. "Blood sprayed from its neck," writes Booth. "Lau put his hands on my shoulder in an affable manner and said, 'You talk [about the Walled City], maybe you [end up] like this...
...despair is felt by Angelo de la Cruz, the 46-year-old truck driver and father of eight who became famous last month for being kidnapped in Iraq. De la Cruz, who was released after Arroyo agreed to pull the country's 51 troops out of Iraq, risked his neck driving oil tankers in battle-scarred cities like Fallujah for $8 a day because he could find no equally lucrative work in the Philippines. "I knew Iraq was dangerous," he says, "but I had no choice." Back home in his ramshackle village of Buena Vista, his high profile hasn...
...Spas' Galaxy boasts a 42-in. pop-up plasma TV, a built-in DVD player and 49 jets to massage your back, neck and bottom. But this tube tub doesn't just scrub your bodyit may also clean out your wallet. Cost...
Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see leclercbriant.com) for a smallish fee you can rappel down into his caves or learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one swift swoop. There's something about the region that helps everyone's bubbles rise to the surface...
...NECK AND NECK: The terror threat puts both campaigns on edge...