1 March 2010 NEW YORK – The blizzard that hit New York last week dumped 24 inches on the city and paralyzed almost all surface transport. But New York’s subways, which were begun in 1904, kept on zipping along, heedless of the tempest above. The city’s subways carry […]
24 January 2005 SHANGHAI – Back in the 1930’s, Shanghai was the wickedest city on earth. Just beyond the stately buildings of the Bund, Nanjing Road, and the European Concessions lay squalid slums, armies of leprous beggars, thousands of child prostitutes, and opium dens. Shanghai teemed with gun runners, con […]
17 January 2005 Phuket, Thailand – While politicians around the globe are jockeying to reap advantage from the December tsunami that smote southern Asia, forensic teams from a dozen nations are conducting the gruesome task of trying to identify horribly bloated, decomposing victims of the tidal waves that killed 5,000 […]
