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...their beach bungalow in the Thai resort of Khao Lak, Garry Beran and Carolyn Spraggon were jolted awake by the earthquake - but didn't think much of it. The British couple had breakfast, then joined the other tourists on the beach and noticed the tide receding. "One minute it was at our feet and then it was half a kilometer away," says Beran, 30. "People started walking out to get to it," but the couple, research scientists from Manchester, didn't follow because Spraggon was putting on suntan lotion. That probably saved their lives. Within minutes, people ran toward them...
...public, and two colleagues struggled to answer the phones and assure callers that the quake was nowhere near Bangkok. He says he didn't have time to inform his boss before the wave hit, but he had no need to. Sumalee Prachuab, who supervises the Bangkok office, was having breakfast at a beach resort in Cha-Am in southeast Thailand when a local monitoring station told her about the quake. By 9 a.m., she knew that the shock had been off Sumatra, and the Bangkok office had started to fax details to local radio and TV stations. But the duty...
...each other’s tears, softened each others’ depressions, nestled together on futons. And there is some of this intimacy even with acquaintances, even with people living on your hall, in your House. You have shared bathrooms with them; they have seen you stagger down to breakfast in your pajamas, bleary-eyed; you have held the doors for each other, hurrying between classes or returning home at the end of a long night. It is an intimacy forced by the presence of so many young people living together, studying, absorbed in the same sort of arcane activities...
...Korean), steamed crab and seafood-based hot pots, such as the fiery maeoontang. Typically, prices aren't stated: instead, restaurateurs ask a small fee for dressing your catch and serving it with wasabi, chilies, raw garlic, sesame leaves and lettuce. It might not be everyone's idea of breakfast?but for color, it sure beats the hotel coffee shop...
...about the darkness or lightness of the toast she serves her two young daughters, starts her days at 5:30 a.m. and ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes dinner for the family but not for herself. She says she's just too harried. Not until...