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...experience of applying for passports in their native Wuhan has been decidedly sour. What should have been a simple matter of filling out a few forms and paying a $24 processing fee has become a Kafkaesque ordeal. In October the entry and exit section of their local police station told them they needed to secure permission from their work unit. The work unit chief declined to grant them leave without the permission of the local police. When they went to the Wuhan Ministry of Public Security to ask for an explanation, a political protection officer curtly told them they were...
That's "room" as in "chatroom." Although some of her fans seem to regard her as a stripper, Ebony (she prefers not to give her real name) is in fact an Internet jockey, or IJ. The show is broadcast on the popular Enterchannel Web TV station: her audience communicates with her through keyboards, she responds via microphone and Webcam. She poses, dances and, yes, sometimes slips off her bra?nothing more. It's pretty tame stuff by the standards of Japanese and U.S adult sites. But it's enough for the guardians of Korean morality to get their knickers...
...George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, reveals its most generous patrons on a gray marble wall in the foyer. When the center, located at Texas A&M University, was being erected, money flowed in from as far away as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, places that had good reason to thank the 40th president of the United States. But for one donor of at least $100,000 - Texas oilman Edwin L. Cox, Sr. - gratitude may have been closer to home...
...Hours after a bomb linked to the Basque terrorist movement ETA killed two people outside a suburban rail station near San Sebastian, French police arrested Xabier Garcia Gaztelu, alias Txapote, who is believed to be eta's top military commander. He has allegedly participated in at least 12 murders, including that of Popular Party councillor Miguel Angel Blanco and Socialist lawyer Fernando Mugica. Txapote was seized in the French town of Anglet, close to the Spanish border, and will face trial in France before extradition to Spain. The arrest is a major blow to eta, whose most senior leader...
...willpower and discipline rather than a tenuous and slow spiritual and psychological rebuilding process. When it comes to methamphetamine addiction, where the brain goes through physiological changes that leave the abstinent addict clinically depressed because of depleted serotonin levels, recovery programs and rehab centers become a crucial way station between addiction and sobriety. But most of the region's drug-treatment centers are run like a cross between military-style boot camps and prisons. Even so, beds are scarce as addicts seek the meager resources available. In China, the nearly 750 state-run rehab centers are filled to capacity...