Word: boxers
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...boxing promoter, Songchai Ratanasuban, has opened the One Songchai Institute of Muay Thai, tel: (66-2) 618 5314, a school attached to the new Bangkok Boxing Stadium. Courses are offered at a range of levels. Curious newcomers can attend ringside lessons (from $45) that involve light sparring with professional boxers. One-day to one-week courses (from $20) are offered to dabblers, while the hard core can take the plunge with rigorous three- to six-week training programs (from $600) that include lessons with Thailand's best coaches, backpacker-style accommodation above the stadium, and home-cooked meals. After training...
California Democrat Barbara Boxer has submitted a bill that addresses only the most basic needs of passengers. Adequate food, drinking water and restrooms must be available to people stuck waiting on planes, and they must have the option to disembark after sitting on the tarmac for three hours...
Mike Thompson, also a California Dem, is preparing a bill that would build on Boxer's by making airlines frequently update flyers on the timing and cause of a delay and try to return checked bags within a day. Customers booking trips would have to be told the lowest fares and which flights are often late or canceled...
...enemies." But he's progressive at home; he has a long record of fighting for environmental concerns, prides himself on his early support for the civil rights movement and has earned strong ratings from labor. He's even working on a military mental-health bill with California liberal Barbara Boxer. His staff claims he votes with Democrats more than 90% of the time, if Iraq is removed from the calculation...
When not wearing a tie and working at his day job in the financial sector, Roberto Ruiz spends his time the way a growing number of Nicaraguan men do: training roosters for razorblade battles to the death. It's like training a boxer, he says. A good program includes running the bird to build stamina (hooded sweatshirt optional), putting the bird in the sun to sweat out grease and develop plumage, and throwing the bird up in the air to build wing strength...