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...minutes' drive from Chiang Mai International Airport, in the well-trodden hills of northern Thailand, Baan Saen Doi (House of a Hundred Thousand Hills) has somehow eluded the platinum-card-carrying class. Featuring classic Lanna architecture without, and authentic hill-tribe craftsmanship within, this two-year-old hidden gem comprises just seven suites and four rooms, making it feel less like a hotel and more like the sumptuous home of its Thai owner Wanphen Sakdatorn and her husband, German Honorary Consul Hagen Dirksen...
...airport x-ray machines going to detect more than just concealed weapons? Yes, says the American Civil Liberties Union, which likens the new backscatter technology to a digital strip search. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will launch the device this month at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport as part of an antiterrorism test program. Backscatter penetrates clothes but not skin, exposing the outline of the body along with any objects being carried. The TSA's version is filtered to make faces and intimate parts indistinguishable (see photo above). Initially, it will be used only if travelers fail a primary screening...
...real test has never been all those sneaky appropriations bill "earmarks" you've been hearing about over the past year, or even the lavish junkets that turned Jack Abramoff into Washington's favorite travel agent. It's whether lawmakers would agree to stand in airport security lines and take off their shoes like the rest...
...minutes' drive from Chiang Mai International Airport, in the well- trodden hills of northern Thailand, a Baan Saen Doi (House of a Hundred Thousand Hills) has somehow eluded the platinum-card-carrying class. Featuring classic[an error occurred while processing this directive] Lanna architecture without, and authentic hill-tribe craftsmanship within, this two-year-old hidden gem comprises just seven suites and four rooms, making it feel less like a hotel and more like the sumptuous home of its Thai owner Wanphen Sakdatorn and her husband, German Honorary Consul Hagen Dirksen...
...that it is not the body that should be operating them. As the elected student government, the UC is in a unique position to facilitate—but not directly provide—a variety of campus-wide student services. Students appreciate having shuttles to the airport, inexpensive cardboard boxes for move-out, and $1 movie nights—all of which the UC used to provide. The UC is a single, central body with both the authority and financial means to coordinate these endeavors, and so the responsibility to do so falls on it. The UC?...