Word: cheapness
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...Mongla sprawls across a spacious valley bound by dark hills. I drove along the high street, where many old buildings had been demolished and replaced by the standard-issue shophouses, some of which doubled as cheap brothels. Most residents had retreated inside to escape the sweltering heat, and the streets were empty apart from a grimy Akha woman sifting through the trash cans...
...seem surprising that a deeply religious Pentecostal would choose to make his career in politics, a profession in which the deal very often buries the ideal under a pile of cheap excuses. But to someone like Ashcroft, if you believe it is your duty to serve others, then the ultimate service is politics. He believes it so deeply that when he lost his Senate race in November, he had a party for his staff and another for his fund raisers and personally served the coffee and the ice cream. There were no cameras there to record...
...looming writers' strike hits this summer, some of the cheap reality shows likely to fill the airtime could stay on after the strike ends, especially if Survivor demonstrates the genre's viability. That may also depend on the continued success of a wave of just-debuted knock-off reality shows that began last week (see boxes)--not unlike the game shows that, exactly this time last year, assumed it would be easy to mimic Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Say, what time is Winning Lines on anyway...
...South Korea's government has been encouraging IT businesses like networking, software development, system integration, content business, B.-to-B. portal operations and database mining. It has slashed red tape for Internet start-ups and deregulated the telecom industry. Result: Internet-access rates in South Korea were dirt cheap just as the Net started to take off. Today more than 3.5 million homes have high-speed Internet access, more than double the number five months ago. The figure in Japan, by contrast, is a puny 640,000 for homes and businesses combined. Internet-ready phone lines are standard equipment...
...What a woman wants, according to his research, is attention, and at a host club, she's overwhelmed. Clubs range from casual pubs to glitzy disco-like halls, but all use pretty much the same system. A woman is lured in with a relatively cheap first-time fee of $50 to $100. On that visit, she must choose her "main" host. Because whomever she picks will receive an up-front commission and half the take from all of her bills whenever she comes to the club, the whole staff showers the newcomer with charm. For a Japanese woman consigned...