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...Surprisingly, dark-horse Narai could be the giant killer. But luckily for Pizza Hut and the Pizza Company, Narai, with no stores outside of Bangkok and the slowest delivery times, may not have the logistics to make it to the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's the Big Cheese? | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Sitting on the blue vinyl flooring of her Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days--no, three--without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets from sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in her hut, Jacky is crashing hard, and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

When the yaba runs out after much of the slum's population has been up for two days bingeing, many of the inhabitants feel a bit like Jacky, cooped up in her squalid little hut, her mouth turned down into a scowl and her eyes squinted and empty and mean. She looks as if she wants something. And if she thinks you have what she wants, look out. She slices at her cuticles with the straight razor. And curses Bing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...then Bing comes around the corner between two shanties and down the narrow dirt path to Jacky's hut. He stands looking lost and confused, as usual. Jacky pretends he's not there. She sighs, looking at her nails, and stage whispers to me that she hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...army ants runs between a crack in the wall and a smashed piece of pineapple. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tissue in which he has wrapped four doa (bodies, slang for speed tablets). Jacky stops doing her nails, smiles and invites Bing back into her hut, asking sweetly, "Oh, Bing, where have you been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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