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...local lore, the giant snake?which was forbidden from entering the monkhood by the Lord Buddha because it wasn't human?has roamed a subterranean universe known as the Muang Badan for thousands of years, slithering through a vast network of caves and tunnels. The main thoroughfare?the Naga superhighway, if you like?is said to run from Kam Chanode in Udon Thani province to Wat Paa Ahong, a temple on the riverbank more than 100 kilometers away in neighboring Nong Khai. Pilgrims, I was told, visit Kam Chanode to anoint themselves with water from the Naga's pond...
...Public trust is the most precious asset these organizations have," says nonprofit adviser Bob Boisture, who notes that the IRS hasn't expanded oversight in more than two decades, despite explosive growth in the charitable sector. That's where Schmidt comes in, using the information superhighway to create a national infrastructure for nonprofits. No more one-way streets...
...then there are drugs: south China's triads run a virtual drug superhighway from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle via China to Hong Kong?and then to anywhere in the world. In mid-April, Vancouver customs officials found 42 kg of heroin with a street value of $64 million stuffed inside cans of pineapple chunks. (The contraband had been canned in Guangdong and shipped through Hong Kong.) Every weekend night, tens of thousands of Hong Kong nightclubbers rip through an ever-expanding number of Shenzhen dance halls where ecstasy, ketamine and ice are freely available and thrillingly cheap. E sells...
...look forward to Madonna's turn in her husband's film. Meantime, congrats to BMW for getting these directors on the Internet superhighway. And to Wong, for being out there in first place...
That sounds like campaign jive, but Gore has always had an eye for how social and technological change affects people. He has been worried about global warming since the 1960s. He held congressional hearings on sheep cloning 15 years before Dolly made headlines. He coined the term information superhighway in 1979, and today he's excited about the mapping of the human genome but concerned it might let insurance companies redline people with genetic predisposition for diseases...