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Lacking liquor, Cambridge, 1’s bar offerings can pretty much be judged on the quality and price of their beer and wine selections. Complementing the concise food selections, the libations are a well-chosen assortment, though the bang for your buck found on the other side of the menu seems to trail away here. The beers are a very nice mix of domestic standards (Bud, MGD), local classics (Harpoon, Tremont, Magic Hat), familiar imports (Peroni, Amstel) and some exotic foreigners (Beamish, Tucher). Likewise, the wine list has eight quality whites and nine highly drinkable reds, such...
...burglars appear to have been intelligence insiders rather than terrorist raiders. Not only was their knowledge of Castlereagh intimate, it was also bang up to date - Room 220 had been moved to its present location just a week before. "These people weren't walking about aimlessly looking for an office," says one police source. "This was very slick and very professional...
...industries. The ratio of sales to inventory, a measure of how much stuff is sitting in the warehouse, topped out at 1.43 in September compared with 1.75 and 1.98 the past two recessions. The downside is that the replenishing period that the economy is enjoying may start with a bang but flatten because companies carry less inventory overall. "We can respond within a day or two," says Rodger Mullen, president of Schneider Logistics, which manages an auto-parts supply chain for GM. "Ten years ago the process took eight to 12 weeks." So he needed to carry more parts...
...soon we arrived at Bang Pa-In, about 80 km from Bangkok. It was time to put our shoes back on and leave the Mekhala for a tour of the royal family's summer palace. Taken in hand by a quick-talking guide who hustled us through the rococo and Victorian follies of the Disney-esque architectural park, I longed for the tranquil pace of the Chao Phraya. We eventually returned to the river, but the Mekhala II was already on her way back down to Bangkok. Instead we boarded gaily colored longtails and were whisked off to Ayuthaya...
RIVER BLEND The stilt village of Bang Yai, 12 km to the northwest of Bangkok, may seem like a long way to travel for coffee but Poon, my taxi-boat driver, promised me it was worth the trip when I stepped into his boat nursing a cup of Starbucks, of which he clearly disapproved. That's how my erstwhile tour of the old klongs of Bangkok was transformed into a quest for authentic kafae thung, or Thai bag coffee. We took off from Nonthaburi, a small town just north of Bangkok. As we quietly chugged through the network of canals...