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...sordid traffic touches nearly every part of Asia. But Thailand and India in particular serve as hubs of the flesh trade: exporters and importers of children and adults on a massive scale. An estimated 7,000 Nepalese children are smuggled into India each year to join the sex industry. In the age of AIDS, children increasingly earn the biggest profits. With a girl's virginity selling for as much as $3,500 in Bangkok, recurring recessions have ensured a ready supply of daughters sold by poverty-stricken families. The number of child prostitutes in Thailand is at least...
...easy. Both girls insist they want to go to Kentung to live with Tip's family. They would feel safest there. With trepidation, we agree. While we arrange visas for ourselves, they pick up a pass to Tachileik, the Burmese border town opposite Mae Sai. With the heavy traffic across the bridge, the four of us cross unnoticed. Fearing problems with checkpoints if we go by road, we buy the two girls flights to Kentung. It is with relief that we watch the plane take...
...know Colgate does a very, very good job of fronting the puck and blocking shots, but we did a very poor job of getting the puck through traffic,” Mazzoleni said. “We have to open up our own shooting lanes...
Trailing 2-1 in the second period, the Crimson stormed back to tie the game on senior captain Peter Capouch’s blast from the slot, which found its way through traffic and past Cann—last week’s ECAC Goaltender of the Week—at 1:33 of the frame...
Following the conclusion of the game, hordes of screaming Patriots fans spilled into Harvard Square, stopping traffic for over an hour...