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Case in point: Burma, or Myanmar, the indigenous name used by the generals who annulled democratic elections a decade ago. Repressive and corrupt, the junta has managed to avoid blanket sanctions by the West. But campaigners are demanding a travel boycott, taking their lead from Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 vote. She maintains that tourist dollars prop up the regime. Another deterrent: International Labor Organization reports say forced labor was used on tourist projects...
...plane, make sure you have as much room to move your legs as possible?a good reason to store cabin baggage in the overhead compartment rather than under the seat in front of you where it can take up precious legroom. During the flight, drink lots of bottled water, avoid alcohol, straighten and move your legs and even consider wearing support stockings, which can improve blood flow in the veins. While some doctors suggest moving around the cabin every half-hour or so, many airlines recommend doing gentle exercise in your seat?both for safety reasons and to avoid getting...
...With freedom comes responsibility - or heartache on a possibly very large scale. Sex education throughout the region, controlled by all those fogies, is of the "The penis is a finger-like organ ..." school. The young and the restless of Asia need wisdom if the region is to avoid teen pregnancies and an HIV epidemic. "I first had sex when I was 20," recalls Jiraporn Thepitak, a sexually active single woman in Bangkok. "When I go back to my home village, I see that girls are already having sex when they are 15 and 16. Before, everyone used to think...
...Bernard Baumohl: Well, they look around and see the U.S. and the rest of the world slowing down economically, and they expect demand for oil to slow along with the global economy. So to avoid a glut that could push down oil prices, they're cutting back to keep prices at a level where they still turn a healthy profit...
...they do carry out a cut in the neighborhood of a million barrels a day, that can't help the world economy. Just when things are slowing down, and governments are trying to avoid a hard landing, it can't help to have energy prices going...