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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...risk of losing one to theft. The best time to see the temples is during the hours just after dawn?by 10 a.m. the temperature reaches a blistering 42?C, the tour buses congregate, and the voracious hawkers, desperate for a sale in the slow season, are on the prowl. It?s the perfect opportunity for a retreat, preferably to the shady enclave of a roadside restaurant for a fresh lime soda and a Burmese cucumber salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicycling around Burma's Archaeological Wonders | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Aitkenhead and her spouse find themselves in South Africa's heart of darkness. Hoping to discover a place where the club scene is relatively fresh and innocent, they stumble instead into a post-apartheid netherworld where the Ecstasy is plentiful but so is the agony. Drug gangsters prowl the dusty streets, gunshot blasts mix with the electronic dancebeats, and racism has merely developed more nuance. This is where the author's journalism chops really come into play, and the result is intensely compelling. One can envision the corrugated-iron homes from the motorway, or the brightness of the city making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Been There, Done That | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

Dressed in bomber or camouflage jackets and heavy steel-tipped boots, skinheads prowl in packs of three to five "fighters" armed with clubs and steel rods. These groups can merge quickly to form mobs of several hundred for major assaults, which seem too well-organized to be spontaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Russia, with Hate | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

Taken, or on the prowl? On the prowl—no girl would ever want to sleep in that...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Cornelia L. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dormroom Dialogue with a Vengeance | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

Taken, or on the prowl? Single. Definitely single...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Cornelia L. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dormroom Dialogue with a Vengeance | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

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