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I contemplate crossing the six-lane road for a full five minutes.
Moto-bikes in front of me, moto-bikes behind me, moto-bikes to the left and to the right of me; moto-bikes coming at me at every geometric angle conceivable.
Crossing a street in Vietnam is like trying to teach my English language learners in the computer lab. [...]

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Beijing, China: 15 Million People Plus Us

One day in Beijing is equivalent to smoking 70 cigarettes.
We cannot even begin to describe the number of people here. For five days in Beijing, we pushed and bumped and exchanged sweat with what feels like a million people. In the Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven, there were so many people we had to [...]

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