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Wong and his partners, meanwhile, have big plans. Wong, who used to run tours in New York City geared to vacationers from China, says sales will be about $3 million this year. He hopes to draw on his contacts back home for capital to expand. Eastern Travel is looking to break into the more profitable New York City-to- Boston corridor. Wong will need all the help he can get to outlast the wave of consolidation that may soon shake the industry. His competitors are already moving upmarket. Some of the family-owned Chinatown companies have brought in professional managers...
WHAT I DID OVER CHRISTMAS BREAK Most teenagers would consider sneaking off to a party enough excitement for the holidays. FARRIS HASSAN, 16, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stole away to a war zone. Hassan, the U.S.-born son of Iraqi Americans, wanted to travel to Baghdad to better understand the plight of Iraq's citizens. "I thought I'd go the extra mile for that or, rather, a few thousand miles," says Hassan, who left the U.S. Dec. 11, notifying his family in an e-mail from the road. The teen bought a $900 plane ticket to Kuwait with money...
...cake of praise and recognition for Hwang. Scientists from around the world were clamoring to collaborate with him. Volunteers besieged his operation, offering themselves as research subjects. The South Korean government began pouring millions into his chronically underfunded lab. He was given round-the-clock security and free travel on Korean Air for life...
...black-power militants and even some of his closest advisers were rejecting King's philosophy of nonviolence. Many white supporters of the civil rights movement had redirected their enthusiasm--and their dollars--to opposing the war in Vietnam. Other whites chastised King for speaking out against the war. Constant travel to rally support for his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), along with his frequent affairs on the road, strained King's marriage. Premonitions of death stalked him. Meanwhile, the FBI stepped up its harassment with wiretaps and dirty tricks. Determined to revitalize his mission and himself, King hoped he could...
...ANDREW YOUNG, KING TOOK A midnight flight through Dallas and reached home early on Jan. 15. They arrived late and exhausted for King's morning presentation at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he was the pastor. Some 60 members of the SCLC staff were gathered from scattered posts with their travel possessions, ready to disperse straight from Atlanta to recruiting assignments for the poverty campaign. SCLC executive director William Rutherford's summons had described a mandatory workshop of crisp final instructions--"it is imperative"--but King labored more broadly to overcome festering doubt and confusion about why they must...