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Mistress Sandy, 25, has been a successful dominatrix for two years. She has a spate of regular customers - 70% of them Chinese, like her - and a reputation as a fierce mistress who will kick and spit you into submission. Raised in Hong Kong, her family doesn't know her occupation. Nor do her three roommates or her boyfriend. "He's traditional Chinese. He wouldn't understand," she says. After high school, she got a job as a secretary at a Hong Kong bank but didn't like it. "I wasn't good at that. I'm good at this...
...AIDS - health workers say there are at least 50,000 victims - because of its large population of heroin shooters. Little Jade has only been hustling for two months, but it was long enough to pick up a heroin habit. She says her occasional boyfriend, a hospital orderly, helped her kick the addiction by locking her in a room for 15 agonizing days. However, the disease may already be laying siege to her immune system...
...real problem with triggers, though, is that there is no guarantee they will work. When it's time for them to kick in, lawmakers sometimes use accounting gimmicks to get around them. The most famous example is the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, which was passed at a time of surging deficits and required deep spending cuts to be enacted automatically if Congress failed to do the job. "The first time we pulled the Gramm-Rudman trigger, it went off. The second time we pulled it, it went off," former Senator Warren Rudman recalls ruefully. "The third time we pulled...
Many who were at the kick-off are heavily involved in city afterschool programming, such as the Rev. Gregory Groover, Sr., who chairs the education committee of the Black Ministerial Alliance, a group whose 40 afterschool programs will likely benefit from the new funds...
...single week. (I used to feel sorry for other kids when I talked about Clint Eastwood's spaghetti Westerns or "Dr. No" or "North by Northwest" and find that they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. No wonder they were so ready to kick...