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Article: Net Worth; Its never been easier to click and go- but does travel really compute?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 11, 1996
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HTTP://WWW.VIETVET.ORG/VISIT.HTM,
CYBERSPACE
One moment, the screen is blank. Suddenly, the image begins
to crystallize. A milky mist veils the morning in Vietnam, and a
solitary farmer spreads her fine grains of rice upon a cloth blanket
for drying. Here, on the banks of the Mekong Delta, she toils amid a
cluster of bamboo huts filled with rusting bicycles and family
members finishing the remains of the day's breakfast.
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Voila. We're wandering the streets of Miami's South Beach.
Splayed out behind the parade of leggy fashion models and Cuban ...