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...merits of prohibiting alcohol sales during Songkran, or Thai New Year, which runs April 13-15 and is the country's most important annual holiday. This is a bit like Sir Liam banning booze at Christmas. Better known among tourists as the Water Festival, Songkran is famous for mass water-pistol fights and - with millions of Thais visiting their families - insanely busy highways. During last year's festival, 360 people died in road accidents and 4,794 were injured. The main cause? Alcohol. Some 80% of road accidents during long holiday periods are due to drunk driving, a senior Thai...
...some disappointing performances in recent weeks, both the co-ed and women’s teams took to the water this past weekend throughout New England against some stiff competition in some rather stiff winds. The co-ed team competed in the New England Dinghy Championship in Chestnut Hill, Mass., placing seventh overall, while the women’s team traveled to New London, Conn. for the Women’s Wick and Shrew Trophies, and brought home a fourth place finish. While the Crimson failed to emerge victorious at either of the regattas, both squads progressed on their season...
...American Gangster, where he was second-billed to Denzel Washington, was a hit; Body of Lies, with Crowe supporting Leonardo Di Caprio, was a flop. State of Play (a flat, unenticing title for what means to be a smart, pounding thriller) may have one of those twisty plots that mass audiences think will make their heads hurt; they'll watch it in a few months at home...
...serious about the reforms it had promised." The GDR government at that point was already under enormous pressure not only from inside of the country, where cries to lift travel restriction were becoming louder and louder, but also from Czechoslovakia, which was struggling to cope with the mass exodus of East Germans who were fleeing to the West via its borders...
...such, for high-speed rail to become a viable form of mass transportation in this country, any new initiative must be a truly competitive alternative to the dominant automotive and airline industries. Amtrak’s poor track record has given rise to the false assumption that American culture is somehow incompatible with mass transit or railroads; this is absolutely false. Poor management practices should be remedied by decisive action—for starters, President Obama ought to encourage private industry to cooperate with Amtrak by offering tax breaks for those firms willing to cooperate on the proposed renovation plan...