Word: virtually
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...then there are drugs: south China's triads run a virtual drug superhighway from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle via China to Hong Kong?and then to anywhere in the world. In mid-April, Vancouver customs officials found 42 kg of heroin with a street value of $64 million stuffed inside cans of pineapple chunks. (The contraband had been canned in Guangdong and shipped through Hong Kong.) Every weekend night, tens of thousands of Hong Kong nightclubbers rip through an ever-expanding number of Shenzhen dance halls where ecstasy, ketamine and ice are freely available and thrillingly cheap. E sells...
...person is discussed as a woman, set free from the political hagiography that surrounded her in life and still defines her in death. It is an unusual story and a compulsively readable book?the rise of this weak, unhealthy girl to leadership of the world's largest democracy, a virtual dictator who put order first and democracy second...
...Marbles in My Underpants: The Renée French Collection" can be found at superior comic shops both real and virtual. The publisher also sells it from their website: www.onipress.com
...passengers are free from the many distractions of everyday home and work, unable to dodge conversation, able to tackle sensitive matters. Atmospherically encouraged to speak openly, occupants say things they might not in a less safe, less private setting. A virtual sound-stage for intimate conversation is created, and the Car Confabulation jumps to life...
...start discussing reparations to African Americans who were enslaved, as Jack E. White did in his column "Don't Waste Your Breath" [DIVIDING LINE, April 2], we need to take care of a previous debt. Native Americans had an entire hemisphere stolen from them, and they suffered under a virtual "open hunting season" from the time Columbus appeared on the horizon. To repay Native Americans for our ill-gotten gains would mean we would have to give them--well, everything. JIM OSBORNE Indianapolis...