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...Mekong into the jungled heart of Southeast Asia has had a hold on popular imagination since Martin Sheen's nightmarish voyage in Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola's film, shot in the Philippines, probably did as much to inform armchair experience of the Vietnam War and its virgin forest battlegrounds as any travel brochure. But recreating Captain Willard's mythical journey has been impossible for decades due to civil war in Mekong and tourist restrictions in communist Laos. Until now. Although not yet officially announced, the Mekong border crossing has been reopened to foreigners, allowing river travel from the Cambodian...
Black Market Music (Virgin...
MARIAH CAREY Diva inks industry-high $80 mil. deal with Virgin. Spares her the need to hawk anyone's cola...
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...flying. And a few experts say that airlines, whose advertisements depict air travel as a relaxed, soothing realm of smiling passengers and subservient flight attendants, may themselves be partially to blame for raising travelers' expectations. It's a claim airlines flatly dismiss. "Ludicrous," says Ben Hall, a spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways. "We have to look at how many cases of air rage are linked to people over-indulging in alcohol. And how many are people with underlying psychological illnesses. They are more contributing factors than anything to do with advertising...