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...life, there are a lot of shared values among young Europeans. It has to do with a sense of being tolerant and open, and a willingness to try new things." It's no longer unusual for someone like the French novelist Frédéric Biegbeder, 35, to profess little desire to leave France but also "feel totally European. And that means I don't give a damn about France. I go along with John Lennon: 'Imagine there's no countries...
...That money gap raises fears that some talented East Europeans who leave for the West will never return. But even the most inveterate nomads, like Bilana Raeva, a 27-year-old Bulgarian who just completed an internship with the European Commission in Brussels, profess a desire to return home someday. "I feel at home everywhere, but when I go back to Bulgaria now, I feel like a tourist," says Raeva, who has already lived in Poland, the Netherlands and Spain. "But of course I'd like to go back. I want my kids to grow up in my country...
...smoking speed in Thai is keng rot, literally racing, the same words used to describe the weekend motorcycle rallying. The bikers' lives revolve around these two forms of keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba, and there suddenly seems very little difference between his crowd and Jacky's. "Smoking once...
...Thai is keng rot, literally racing, the same word used to describe the motorcycle rallying the boys do every weekend. Their lives revolve around these two forms of keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night, in Big's room in his parent's house, on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba and there suddenly seems very little...
Diversity. Broadening horizons. That's what college is all about, right? While many institutions of higher learning profess to offer students new perspectives as one of their main goals, their actions fail to back up their claims. Recently, a number of schools across the nation, such as Yale, Indian University and USC have restricted their students' Napster usage. This new technology, while shadowed by swirling allegations of piracy and copyright infringement, is a major tool of mental enrichment and open-mindedness available to students...