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...unexpected lesson in the power of the U.S. dollar during a visit to Tashkent, the dreary capital of Uzbekistan, several years back. While heading into town from the airport, my babbling taxi driver kept one hand (barely) on the steering wheel while his other shoved a stack of local currency, the som, into my face. He insistently urged me to trade the money for dollars. After checking in at the grim Hotel Uzbekistan, a nattily clad porter showed me and my wife to a room, fiddled with a broken TV set, and then reached into his jacket pockets for large...
...next 15 years or so, with other currencies, like the euro, making inroads and forming a system in which multiple currencies share the world stage. "This is the last major crisis in which the dollar is viewed as a safe haven," Frankel predicts. Maybe next time I'm in Tashkent, I'll take along some Chinese yuan...
...trail. Most people have never even heard of it or of Karakalpakstan, the autonomous republic of which Nukus is the capital. Reaching the city involves a knuckle-whitening three-hour flight in a Soviet-era aircraft - or a 40-hour drive across the steppes - from the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. But when you finally arrive at Nukus, there are two surreal sights to behold. The first is the dried-up bed of the Aral Sea - once the world's fourth-largest lake, but now a hellishly arid [an error occurred while processing this directive] landscape of grounded fishing boats...
...U.S.S.R., a diamond, a flower, a street, a poem and a book have already been named in her honor. Now comes a Samantha Smith stamp, worth 5 kopecks, or about 7.5¢. The wave of official adoration sweeping the Soviet Union shows no sign of abating. Schoolchildren in Tashkent have formed an international friendship club and set up a museum in her memory, and students from more than 100 Soviet schools competed for the chance to have their school renamed Samantha Smith...
...could mean up to five years in prison. Said Muzaffarmirzo Iskhakov, the Andijan chair of the Ezgulik (Goodness) human-rights group: "They did not let his family see him, or even send him some food." Surat Ikramov, chair of Uzbekistan's Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders in Tashkent, told Time that police have subjected more than 40 protesters in the Uzbek capital to repressive measures, including detention in unknown locations and house arrests. And he says other activists have been harassed or arrested in the country's Fergana, Kashkadaryinsk and Djizak regions. Karimov's government has repeatedly rejected...