November 26, 2011
One area where the US indisputably leads the world is incarceration. There are 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every 100 Americans. The federal prison population has more than doubled over the past 15 years, and one in nine black children has a parent in jail. Proportionally, the US has four times [...]
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October 17, 2009
The puppets, called Thanh tuong (saint statues) are the statues of human heads made out of jackfruit wood and colorful paint Itâs an extremely localized tradition that finds a home in only three small villages in the northern province of Nam Dinh. In the town of Nam Giang, Nam Truc District, the villages of Van [...]
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May 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Some noodle producers in Vietnam would appear to have a troublingly lax attitude towards hygiene Pho might be the Vietnamese rice noodle that is most frequently lauded by food writers around the world, and it has even inspired some men to write poetry, but if I were to take a noodle to the [...]
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