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Today was a satisfying day on the Delta.
Rice is the principal form of food for half the world. And we saw its entire life cycle in just a half day.
We started by taking a boat to a small village. We gingerly walked the edges of a rice field...
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The Mekong Delta was already hot and humid at 8:00 on a winter morning.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
After driving south from Hue I checked into the Golden Sands Hotel in Hoi An, and was ushered into a suite about 35 feet from the South...
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As planned, I drove south from Hue today. But the day was nothing like I’d planned. It was, in fact, amazing—a perfect example of why even a great book or video about a place can’t match the experience of being there.
It was drizzling when I...
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Hanoi is a perfect example of a new kind of Third World city.
The country is growing rapidly, and the Vietnamese government wants to establish manufacturing and export facilities just about everywhere it can. So it’s taking over the rice fields...
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Today starts WRAP Week: White Ribbons Against Pornography.
Sponsored by groups including Concerned Women for America (CWA) and Morality in Media (MIM), the goal of the week is “to educate the public about the extent of the pornography problem and...
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There’s just too many things happening in the world of sex to comment on every single one. Thus, we introduce the Sexual Intelligence Roundup, through which you can follow sex-related events that are fun, aggravating, confusing, or all three....