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Plain adventures

Article Abstract:

Exploration need not be limited to what is extraordinary. It could start with the ordinary and mundane, for these can be as interesting and educational as more unusual subjects, yielding meaningful insights about the social history of a community and its neighbors.

Author: Stilgoe, John R.
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1999
Methods, Usage, Study and teaching, Social history, Curiosity, Discoveries (in geography), Discovery and exploration

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Adventures in the skin trade

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Sex tourism in Cuba has become the focus of international attention, but it has always been part of the postrevolutionary Cuba. Fidel Castro's government is hypercritically cracking down on prostitution because it has become an economic threat.

Author: Fusco, Coco
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
Cuba, Prostitution

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Adventures of a gringo gimp

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A handicapped man traveling into Mexico by car recounts how he was apprehended by the Mexican dope police. He laments that these anti-drug traffic policemen did not consider his disability throughout the ordeal.

Author: Amantea, Carlos A.
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1995
Personal narratives, Disabled persons, Narcotics, Control of, Narcotics control, Police patrol, Police patrols

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