Word: virtually
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...spirited away from northern Chiang Rai province at age 12 when child traffickers convinced her parents they would give her a good job in a beach- resort restaurant. When she reached Phuket, a center for sex tourism, she was forced into prostitution in conditions of virtual slavery until she was rescued last December by Thai police. But they arrived too late; Armine has tested HIV-positive and will die of AIDS...
...chocolate cake. Citizens for a Sound Economy, a Washington antitax group, placed full-page ads earlier this month in the Billings Gazette, inviting residents to a noon rally to learn the evils of the President's proposed tax on the heat content of fuels. More than 150 people -- a virtual mob by Big Sky standards -- gathered at a downtown hotel to hear a Washington economist explain that the tax would cost every Montana family $500 a year and deprive the state of 1,500 jobs. After urging citizens to telephone their disapproval to Montana's Max Baucus, a Democrat...
...dream of picking money off trees has become virtual reality in the late 20th century with the invention of the cash-dispensing machine, but like many dreams, it has a primitive dark side: the fear that easy pickings are susceptible to easy loss. And for women, there's more at risk than money...
...Thailand. The practice still flourishes, but in the 1980s the traffic became two-way, with Filipina and Thai prostitutes migrating to Japan. Despite the efforts of citizens' groups to publicize the problem, little has been done to help the estimated 70,000 Thai "hostesses" now working in Japan as virtual indentured sex slaves in bars usually controlled by yakuza gangsters. The women, many of them ignorant villagers, are sold by Thai brokers for an average of $14,000 each and resold to the clubs by Japanese brokers for about $30,000 -- a sum they are obliged to work...
Many argue that "big-time" players like, say, Michigan sophomore Chris Webber--virtual semi-pros, preparing for a lucrative NBA career--deserve to be scrutinized and their play criticized. By the same token, outgoing men's basketball captain Tyler Rullman, as an Ivy League student-athlete (and more the former than the latter), doesn't deserve as much scrutiny because he's playing at a different level...