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...Tanjong Pagar suburb that has a large homosexual clientele. At the two 24-hour coffee shops, it's not unusual to see flamboyantly attired drag queens enjoying a late night snack. By day, the café at the Borders bookstore downtown is a popular gay hangout. Those who prefer to stay in the closet can find refuge in numerous websites and Internet chat groups run by local gay activists. "Singapore is probably the safest place to live in Asia now", says Shen, a gay playwright...
Rather than pressure the state for their rights, many Singaporean gays prefer the Internet's anonymity. At websites like sgboy.com and numerous online forums they can interact with like-minded surfers. You can leave personal ads, rent an apartment, or find fellow gay schoolmates at sgboy.com's many forums. The site's popularity was underscored earlier this month, when it held a beauty contest at Venom, one of Singapore's largest discos: hundreds of men signed up to strut the catwalk and thousands more queued up on the street outside for a chance to ogle at them...
Philosophy student Aaron J. James, who will be an assistant professor at the University of California at Irvine next year, says that job interviewers prefer applicants who finish their dissertations within a specific window...
...means of communication available, most kids still prefer to get letters through the good old U.S. mail, say camp directors. Nothing beats the intimacy of Mom's handwriting or Dad's clippings of the latest sports stats--and no one has yet figured out how to tuck a crisp $5 bill into an e-mail or fax for spending at the camp store (though that will come soon enough). No matter how the mail arrives, says Rodger Popkin, president of the American Camping Association and co-owner of Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, "if we're doing...
...disruption of the dam is relatively minor from the Chinese perspective. And he sees that the quaint old houses built on the cobbled streets leading up from the Yangtze--the structures Western tourists like to photograph--are in fact dirty, cramped and without running water or toilets. Many Chinese prefer to move to the industrial new towns built in all their tasteless utility. Writes Hessler: "In some ways it was like the American generation of my parents, who grew up on stories of the Depression and World War II ... There was the same sense of future glory in China...