Chicken with All the Trimmings
Valentine's Day has nothing on Christmas Eve in Japan when it comes to showing your true love that you really care. Further, a woman caught without a date on December 24th might just be tempted to trade in her Gucci and Prada for a nun's robe and headpiece. It is that serious. But to start the fires of romance on this eve, the mood will likely be set over a meal of chicken, coleslaw, beans, and biscuits from the corner outlet.

December 29, 1999

Adventures in Papua New Guinea
"Goroka is a wonderful place," he said of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) number one coffee producer in the Eastern Highlands Province, "but you must remember to stay on the one main road. If you stray off to either side, your head comes off."

December 8, 1999

Flying the Friendly Skies of Papua New Guinea
This wasn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that Air Niugini has stranded somebody through a hiccup of one its Fokker jets or Bombardier prop planes. But delays in the airline business are hardly unique; all airlines, the world over, have them. There's much more to flying the friendly skies of PNG.

December 1, 1999

Odaiba: Where Bubbles Don't Burst
Described by Forbes as "a sort of Canary-Wharf-on-hallucinogens," Odaiba is a man-made 1,100-acre peninsula of shopping and office building creations jutting into Tokyo Harbor that set back the local citizens some $31 billion.

November 17, 1999