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...swarm all over our embassies and reduce local protocol to rubble." In this case the ghoulish exercise of selecting a death camp for Reagan to visit appalled many Germans. White House aides would not explain just why Bergen-Belsen was finally chosen. It is conveniently close to Frankfurt, its park-like setting is photogenic, and, since the camp was burned to the ground in 1945, there is little to remind visitors of its gruesome past except a monument...
Like most of her classmates at Washington High School in Milwaukee, Wis., La Shanda Trimble, 18, is attentive to fashion trends; it's the particular trend she chooses that sets her apart. She's a Goth, wearing black lipstick and nail polish, listening to bands like Linkin Park and Rob Zombie rather than rapper Nelly or R&B star Ciara. She likes to wear her hair in pigtails instead of the more popularly accepted braids. The other kids don't approve. "They think I should act like them,'' says the 11th-grader. "They like me to listen...
Most teens still do their drinking when adults aren't around. But many parents have concluded that teen drinking is inevitable, and given the options, they prefer to have their kids drink at home under adult supervision rather than in a park or parking lot. Some parents even play host to "tent" parties, at which they confiscate car keys and provide a place for kids to spend the night. Public opinion, however, seems to be against that approach, and state and local governments are beginning to enact laws designed to stem underage drinking by targeting adults. Adults face six months...
...across the Pearl River estuary, Hong Kong's worldly denizens once snickered pityingly at their small-town, Macanese cousins. Now the latter are having the last laugh, unveiling bombastic showpiece after showpiece-from dazzling casinos and resorts to a new sports arena and (in the works) a lavish theme park complete with erupting volcano. They're also relishing a booming local economy, fueled by Macau's casinos, which raked in a staggering revenue of $5 billion in 2004 (about the same as that of the Las Vegas Strip) and are tipped to trump that this year. All the more reason...
...January, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rang in the Korea-Japan Friendship Year in Seoul by announcing, "Let's be friends happily and head toward the future." This sunny message was an echo of the event's catchy theme song, Dance with Me, performed by Korean singer Lena Park and a Japanese band called Chemistry. China also picked up on the good vibes and was making efforts to put aside its long-standing antipathy toward Japan: a group of women climbers from Japan and China arranged to take on Mount Everest together, their ascent supposedly symbolizing that the steep...