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11 07 Singapore-It Preserves, Expands, and Projects

In June, 2001, while in London, my wife and I attended a musical comedy set in the British colony city of Singapore, in December, 1941. As part of the script, several of the British actors complained about their presence in "this mosquito-infested third world hellhole." Soon after, in August, 2001, we visited the real Singapore today. What a difference! I knew the musical was accurate for its time, but Singapore today is an integral part of the FIRST world, sometimes called the Pacific Rim. A few years later, in 2004, we returned to...

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