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...Bangkok has its attractions, but if you're a frequent visitor to Thailand and have had your fill of the capital's shopping and traffic, chances are you'll be arriving at Don Muang airport with but one desire: to get to the coast as fast as possible. There's good news if your chosen resort is Hua Hin. After a three-year hiatus, commercial flights have resumed between Bangkok and the seaside sanctuary most favored by Thailand's royal family. With the train taking more than four hours-and the tiresome 200-km road trip lasting almost as long...
...thieves frequently hire pickers, who pluck away, looking like legitimate harvesters. In a few hours they can fill a pickup truck with avocados, which they then sell to wholesalers for more than $1 per lb. A year ago, before oversupply and rising water costs forced many growers out of business and helped cause the current shortage, the same fruit fetched about 27?...
Although the organizers have miles to fill before they sleep, the project has already begun to evoke a spirit that is a curious amalgam of Woodstock, the Olympic torch relay and a March of Dimes walkathon. Says Kragen: "Kids see it as a party. Yuppies see it as a return to activism The elderly see it as neighbor to neighbor Democrats as a challenge to grass-roots organizing, Republicans as voluntarism.' And for all of them it is a diverting way of finding contentment on a Sunday afternoon. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...audiences from Moscow to Leningrad on their feet, cheering his pyrotechnical feats of pianistic derring-do. They gave only a perfunctory glance to his papers; instead, they crowded around him, rifles held casually, and pounded him on the back. "Now you go play for the rich over there and fill your pockets with money," one of them said. "But come back and play for us when your pockets are full. Do not forget the motherland...
Beneath the hype and ambition of the prosecutors in the trials of the Mafia families lies the real issue of human frailty. The decimation of these organizations will not thwart the demand for their services. In time, others, perhaps more ruthless and less insular, will fill the vacuum. Paul Riley New York City Parisian Terror...