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...poor man's Thailand boasts four dazzling but desolate white-sand beaches, each sparsely dotted with shanties where locals sell water, fruit and French fries. Victory Beach is a two-minute walk from a backpacker-hotel cluster known as Weather Station Hill, where $2 rooms abound. The adventurous can hike 3 km south to Independence Beach. Sokha and Ochheuteal beaches on the south shore offer bungalows for rent and are somewhat more commercial, but not by much...
...union lost a million members and is now down to about 2.7 million. Harmen Lehment, an economist at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, found that the metalworking industry shed 300,000 jobs in the two years after the 1995 strike - a result, he believes, of the 4% wage hike that was agreed on. He estimates that for every 1% of increased wages, the economy will lose 1% employment as companies invest in high-tech machinery or transfer jobs to Eastern Europe. "The rank-and-file not only are not concerned about unemployment," he says, "but also it seems they...
...exact businesses that are still recovering from Sept. 11 - namely airlines, transportation, tourism and travel, not to mention the slowdown's long-time whipping boy, manufacturing. And if economists have said it once, they've said it a million times - all that adds up to a virtual tax hike on consumers, upon whose open wallets this nascent recovery depends...
...Beaten Path (virtualtourist.com) TRIP TIPS Planning a hike to Sri Lanka's World's End? Make sure you leave early enough to catch a view from the 700-m cliffs plunging to the plains below. The clouds roll in just after dawn, obscuring any chance for a vista. This and other helpful tourist tips-and traps-can be found on this database of tales contributed by travelers from around the world...
...they chew things over, and they disagree - though Downing St. is exceedingly disciplined about not leaking details. Nevertheless, that Vice President Cheney finally waded into the Middle East peace process last week looks from London like a vindication of Blair's long-standing advice. Bush's 50% foreign aid hike over three years is also something Blair, who called in September for a fight against the poverty that breeds extremism, also backs. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans one Blair adviser. "It's too bad that...