Word: passport
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...Although he supports the U.S. sanctions, Ko Myo does not believe they will topple the regime, and now?after years of staying to help his country?he is one of many Burmese leaving in desperation and disgust. It takes hundreds of dollars and months of waiting to get a passport, and the Rangoon office that issues them is now besieged by applicants. It helps to be male. Stung by foreign criticism that Burma is exporting sex workers, the regime now makes it nearly impossible for young women to go abroad. Ironically, this is fueling the local sex industry, which employs...
Yang, a native of China, had returned to China with a borrowed passport to meet with other pro-democracy activists...
...Ensler wears her vagina identity as a badge of honor, using it as a passport to far-flung regions across the world where women are fighting fearlessly for dignity and safety...
Susan Orlean has been to so many countries, she’s run out of pages in her passport. “I have so many frequent flier miles, I could go to Mars,” she says. Given her nomadic nature, it’s a surprise Rover has beat her to the red planet. Courtesy of all these racked-up miles, she and her husband made their honeymoon flight to China without paying a penny...
...commission staff report cited the passport tampering as evidence that prior to 9/11, U.S. officials were not sufficiently diligent in discovering such forgeries. But a veteran counterterrorism hand contends that "without a microscopic forensic examination, a routine inspector wouldn't have ascertained that the stamps weren't valid...