Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent my summer in Hong Kong, one of the areas in Asia whose economy has gone down the drain. Before my visit, I hadn't realized how bad it is. An air of gloom hung over the whole city--all the malls were empty, the shops filled with "Going Out of Business" signs and the headline news everyday was either of another jump in the unemployment rate or of yet another major company closing down. The suicide rate has gone up; there was an unemployment-related one just a few days...
Along the way, Huan found some cherished mentors at school and at church. They helped guide her, particularly when she faced a personal tragedy. Last fall she was eagerly awaiting her father's first visit to the U.S. when he died in a freak accident. Huan's father was a sound engineer by profession, and he and his daughter shared a passion for music. After his death, however, music filled her with pain. "Music is such an intimate thing," says Huan. "The memories it brought up made me sad. So I thought I had to get away from music...
...Ever visit the natural human habitat, a hunter-gatherer society? Very little privacy. And very little child abuse. And little extramarital sex--at least, compared with the possibilities offered by modern anonymity. In parts of Liverpool, England, blood tests showed that 1 in 4 kids had a biological father other than the father of record. Among the !Kung San hunter-gatherers of Africa, the figure was just 1 in 50--and that was without modern contraceptive technology...
According to Tom Steifel-Kristensen, the p.r. manager at Saga, some 40 American designers have obtained fur licenses in the past couple of years after a little visit to Sandbjerg. "We help them develop their ideas while they're here and can use our facilities," says Steifel-Kristensen. "Then we offer to continue elaborating on their ideas after they have left and to make and supply samples." He says Saga will even help teach the designers' fur suppliers the techniques they have learned. Who could resist? Not designer Eric Gaskins, who visited Saga in 1994. "They really show someone...
Though final clubs have undergone strict scrutiny in recent years, this group believes the clubs--and the women that visit them--are only part of a bigger picture. They see getting together and traipsing around town on weekend nights as less of a meat-market scenario and more an opportunity to meet with friends they rarely see on Harvard's busy campus...