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...could have been really awful...but it wasn’t,” he said. “They had a ping pong table. I had a bed and the food was better than Annenberg, actually...
...nothing heading down into the city - at 4:45. We drove out of a parking lot where some cars would remain through the night, and into the week, their drivers not returning from the city. As for our family, it was now home and safe. Caroline got put to bed, then I strolled down to the mailbox. Nothing; the post office had shut down too. Coming back up the driveway, I looked up at the moonless sky and watched for a good long while for a plane. Nothing. The sound of the crickets was overwhelming and disturbing...
...East Timor, but on election day it passed its first test. By the time voting ended, the gold light of the day had slipped from the sky. Cooking smells floated on the air, people sat on street corners and radios played. Jos? and Dilia Amaral put their children to bed. It was so peaceful in Dili that it seemed the events of the day were an ordinary part of life. Which, of course, is just the way it should...
...Even Koreans preferred Hollywood fare. But the nation's cinema is rapidly emerging from the obscurity of the art-house circuit. A new crop of hip young directors and producers is turning out legitimate hits, like Shiri, a slick spy-action thriller, Friends, a sentimental buddy flick, and Ginkgo Bed, a funky exploration of relationships and reincarnation. Koreans are watching their own movies in record numbers?Korean films now pull in 40% of ticket sales, up from 25% three years ago. At more than $250 million, the box-office take in 2000 was almost triple the figure a year earlier...
Additionally, Singapore has a form of universal health care that takes advantage of market forces to make the coverage efficient. Everyone must make a small co-payment for services, and if one chooses, one can make a larger co-payment and get more comfortable service—a bigger bed but not better medicine. That way the people who can afford to spend on health care receive more amenities, and their fees (as well as taxes) subsidize those who cannot. And, since everyone has to pay a co-payment, the system keeps wasteful spending down...