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From Asakusa, take the subway or a taxi to Meiji Jingu-Mae and the wide avenue of Omotesando. Tokyo residents call it their Champs-Elysees for its trees, street lamps and chichi boutiques. Order a hot white chocolate at the Anniversaire sidewalk cafe and watch the parade of fashion-soaked young men and women--every one of them gabbing into a cell phone...
After dark, take a subway or taxi to Shinjuku station and walk east to Kabuki-cho, the red-light district, where tipsy businessmen and fashionable coeds frolic alongside transvestite hookers. The area is Disney-safe, but if it's trouble you want, look for a square bordered by cineplexes where a boxer lets patrons pummel him for a charge. From there, walk west to Green Plaza Shinjuku, across from Seibu Shinjuku station. The entrance is cheesy, but the 10-story, 24-hour spa is clean, respectable and welcomes foreigners. It features a gem on its roof: the rotenburo, or outdoor...
...said they beat him up pretty badly. We passed him in a taxi. [gunfire again] He was kind of sitting up. He looked pretty shocked. I'm going to see him a bit later. I think he's got sort of flesh wounds. I don't know if he's got any broken bones. I could tell he was beaten quite badly...
...trips of 100 to 500 miles. If their railbeds were upgraded and widened to allow them to run faster, they could speed travelers between the business districts of cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Chicago and St. Louis, as quickly as the tag team of taxi-airplane-taxi. Trains are also two to eight times as fuel efficient as planes...
...there's huge problems in its distribution (true) and how we're going to rail against the aid agencies, the Afghan authorities and the governments of the world, and, if we have to, physically force them to bring food here (absolutely false). And then we jump into our taxi and speed away, leaving a trail of screaming children in our dust...