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...Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags, "and one of us is always ill." Nearby, a dying 18-month-old child, as skeletal as a famine victim, clung to a slightly older sister pot-bellied with disease. Just offshore, tourist boats skimmed past on day trips to more photogenic places...
...overheard, do what my Burmese friend Ko Myo did when I met him there one evening: lift up one of Mrs. Greedy's tables and set it down several feet from the nearest customers. Even then you talk in an undertone. It's a reminder that despite Burma's tourist-friendly veneer?how many dictatorships have inspired so many coffee-table books??the junta has not gone soft in its dotage. "They watch us all the time," says Ko Myo (which, to protect him, is not his real name...
...reassuringly point out that the bureau's file of 112,500,000 fingerprints is used to identify amnesia victims and mangled corpses as well as such underworld characters as Airbrake Smith and Rooster Face Fannie. But what no tourist will see is the bureau's investigative file covering thousands of ordinary U.S. citizens. It was the existence of those files-important strands in the nation's gigantic net to catch a few disloyal citizens-which gave even the most ardent admirer of the FBI a slightly uneasy feeling. It was not that very many people objected to flushing out Communists...
...here," Sy beams. The empire continues to grow in size and sophistication. SM operates 17 malls and plans to open two or three more each year until 2008. The company has also entered the booming China market, and eventually the Sys want to diversify into commercial real estate and tourist resorts...
Students also visited Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall of China and other tourist attractions...