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...traffic-choked highways. Laykha Boonlerd, 26, a bank employee in Kuala Lumpur, could never before afford to fly to Bangkok to see her family and instead made an excruciating 24-hour pilgrimage by bus and train. But with a one-way ticket on AirAsia costing only $26, she took wing in July for the first time. "I will travel much more with AirAsia," she says. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers like Boonlerd...
...needed range to the team, as he made 39 three-pointers in his last season with UNH. Carey, battle tested from playing four years at St. Dominic High School in New York, brings some versatility to the squad by being able to play anywhere from the point to the wing. “T.J. is a really smart player at the point guard [and] makes great decisions,” Lin says.But guards aren’t the only new faces on the Harvard roster. Freshmen Adam Demuyakor and Kyle Fitzgerald, both measuring in at 6’7, will...
...institution; every 18-year-old male is required to complete an army tour. Because Turkish soldiers are widely upheld as heroes, the former hostages were vilified by the public for not choosing death over the dishonor of capture by the enemy. With nationalist fervor at a peak, some right-wing pundits accused them of being Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) moles. One was of Kurdish origin, others pointed out. Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said he could not "accept the fact that they went with the terrorists that night. Our soldier is prepared to die if necessary when he is protecting...
...good day if the King of Spain were to tell them publicly to "shut up." But then, few heads of state are as skillful as Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez at turning a foreign diplomatic rebuke to domestic political advantage. Chávez's radical left-wing rule resides in his populist challenge to "imperialist" threats - and what more convenient symbol of colonial oppression for Chávez (besides his favorite, the U.S.) than the Spanish throne, which plundered South America for three centuries before it was thrown out in the 1800s by Venezuelan "Liberator...
...students do receive the training and skills that allow them to pursue careers in fields that are not strictly artistic. “A big chunk of VES these days is not studio art or even film production,” says Connor. “The environmental study wing, though it’s not very large at the moment, is more like a pre-architecture major. VES teaches how to think about space and place and design of places and reconfiguration of natural space over time and all the things that architects need to know besides...