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...added that the effect on the organization’s nine summer camps, which take place at 12 different locations and rely heavily on van service, may be even more severe...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PBHA Faces Van Seating Shortage | 1/31/2003 | See Source »

...side of the road. "Again," he says into a walkie-talkie, and a red tractor emerges from around the bend to collect two of the actors?one dressed as a monk, the other carrying a suitcase and a boom box. Then, just as Khyentse Norbu calls "cut," a van speeds toward the set, forcing the tractor to lurch off the narrow road. The van stops, only inches from the camera, and discharges a monk in a yellow parka. "Career change," mutters Khyentse Norbu in mock fatigue, then strides purposefully toward the van to exchange greetings with the visitor. The monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The God of Small Films | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...string of brutal cases has sparked growing fear. A cement-truck driver named Hua Ruizhuo was executed last year for picking up prostitutes near the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, handcuffing them in his van, raping them and dumping their bodies in rubbish heaps around the city. He killed 14 women. Around the same time, police in China's northeastern province of Jilin captured Piao Yongzhi, who murdered an undisclosed number of longhaired women, keeping their tresses in bags at his house. He flayed the face of one victim, cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood In the Streets | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

Over the next few months, the University will also test a natural gas-powered Ford shuttle van, which assists disabled individuals during the day and is on-call to transport students at night...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Car Tests Out Natural Gas Power | 1/22/2003 | See Source »

Balancing atop a ladder, 72-year-old Nguyen Van Bang closes his eyes to take a deep appreciative breath. Then he plunges his hand into a vat of rotting anchovies and salt. "You see, this one is only about a week old-the fish still have their eyes and tails," he says, turning over a soupy mixture between his fingers. "But they'll all decompose soon enough, don't worry." Descending, he springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. This is prized nuoc mam, fermented for more than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Saucy | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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