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...Travel section, contributor Pico Iyer takes you to Thailand, the "Land of Smiles" as well as this year's hottest new tourist destination. Iyer spent several weeks exploring the Asian jewel, from the cool allure of the hill town of Chiangmai to the seaside resort of Pattaya to the thriving capital of Bangkok...
...corporate efforts to help families are only beginning to gain momentum, and many working parents still face enormous difficulties. For that reason, family issues are among the hottest topics of political debate in this election year. Congress is considering more than 100 child-care bills, including the so-called ABC (Act for Better Child Care) bill. Backed by Michael Dukakis but opposed by the Reagan Administration, the measure would establish a $2.5 billion program of child-care grants to the states and would set federal standards for day-care facilities. Vice President George Bush has proposed an alternative approach...
...only Western journalists in Burma. In normal times that would not be surprising: since the country's last democratic government was ousted in a 1962 coup, Burma has been virtually closed to visiting foreign correspondents. Yet during the past six months that benighted land has become one of the hottest news stories in the world, as thousands of dissident students, housewives, monks, civil servants and even police have taken to the streets in an attempt to topple the government and restore democracy...
...ominous approach dominated news reports. Overnight, specialists like Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, became trusted gurus, interpreting the big blow with computers. Somehow the storm seemed the violent culmination of a season in which Mother Nature has done anything but nurture, producing the hottest American summer in 50 years, a drought that parched the Midwest, forest fires that turned U.S. parks into cinders, floods that submerged large parts of Bangladesh and Sudan...
CHESS (RCA Victor). You missed the show, now buy the record: not a rock musical at all, but the most eclectic score of the '80s and the hottest night in Bangkok since Yul Brynner met Deborah Kerr...