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...possible to avoid being soaked by spray. The Mekong is more than 1 km wide at this point, and fishermen throwing butterfly nets from bobbing sampans are a common sight. Arriving in Kratie at noon, you have time for lunch and a short siesta. Then hire a motorcycle taxi to the town's northern edge to see endangered freshwater dolphins frolicking just off the river bank in the late afternoon...
...Disco and punk New York City was down, way down, in the mid-'70s. Bankruptcy was looming; 65,000 city workers were laid off; the famous "Ford to New York: Drop Dead" Daily News headline was just a few months away. Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" was filming on 13th Street and around the corner on Third Avenue, looking more like a documentary than a Hollywood feature...
...tried to stop Tito's trip since January. That's when the Russian Space Agency informed NASA that Tito would be aboard the April taxi mission scheduled to replace a Soyuz rescue vehicle now on orbit at the space station with a fresh one. NASA officials claimed that an untrained tourist would present a danger aboard the space station. They were also anxious about the precedent of one of the station partners' launching a unilateral commercial venture. But the cash-strapped Russians insisted. Eventually, the fight involved the other 14 countries who are partners in the space station. To space...
...Bulgarian capital was brought to a standstill by thousands of cab drivers protesting the abduction and killing of a taxi driver's three-year-old son. Interior Minister Emanuil Yordanov said he would resign if police did not find the boy's killer within days. The discovery of the child's body in a city park only hours after his street abduction provoked widespread anger among citizens who say authorities do little to curb violent crime. Prime Minister Ivan Kostov said parliament would hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the crisis, amid opposition calls for the government's resignation...
Little Jade leaves the taxi and wanders into the night. Her face hardens to resemble a painted opera mask as she readies for other customers. She says she needs to turn tricks "for a few more weeks" to save money to treat her boyfriend's heroin addiction. After all, he saved her. Then she'll stop. She recalls how one of her hooker friends fell ill - Little Jade is sure it was AIDS - and the women chipped in with $75 for medical treatment. But the private clinic her friend went to tipped off the authorities, and the woman was never...