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...small room in Fenghuo village, Wu Fang knew something terrible was going to happen to her. Three women from the village rushed in, knocked Wu Fang to the floor and began stripping her. Then her husband threw sulfuric acid on her face, chest and thighs. She let out a long cry. The women held her down, spreading acid over her face and breasts, disfiguring her horribly for the rest of her life. Twelve years later, she still seeks words for the pain: "It was like being thrown into the sky and hurled around...
...time will be spared the temptation to correct them in front of others. Children should be prompted to excuse themselves politely from the table when they are finished, asking first their parents and then their host. The surest way to inoculate children against memorable faux pas is to let them demonstrate simple graciousness. Many a transgression has been quickly forgotten when a child sincerely thanks the host after the meal--with a handshake...
LOYALTY IS FOR FRIENDS, not travel websites. No one site has a lock on the best deals. That's why my favorite sites aren't the ones where you directly place orders but rather those that let you quickly compare prices on as many as 20 different sites at once: qixo.com (for both Macs and PCs) and farechase.com (for PC users only). These sites work like search engines by scouring dozens of other sites, then presenting the best prices in one handy list. To book a flight, just click; a link takes you back to the site offering the deal...
THINK LIKE AN AGENT. If you live in a major city and want the broadest choice of flights, many sites will let you enter a city code (such as CHI for Chicago, NYC for New York City and WAS for Washington) instead of a specific airport name. Another trick is to log in around midnight central time, when many reservations expire and are dumped back into the pool of available flights. Around Christmas, avoid Dec. 22, 23, 24, 26 and 27. If you don't mind flying on Christmas Day, you'll get the lowest rates...
TREAT YOURSELF. Always wanted to go to Istanbul? Dying to tour the South Pacific? Travelocity's Dream Maps feature lets you enter any price and departure city, then shows you all available flights in the world. On LastMinuteTravel, select destination "Anywhere" along with your price and departure date--then let your imagination take flight...