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...Other names are looking to cash in: Sheraton and Marriott have opened high-end Pattaya resorts, and Le Meridien has a project under construction. Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, international p.r. director for Thailand's Tourism Authority, also predicts that the new growth will "divert, if not negate" attention generated by the city's racier side. And while he cautions that any transformation "will have to happen over a number of years," it nonetheless seems that the dubious legacy of the old U.S. airstrip may one day be eclipsed by Suvarnabhumi's economic blessings...
...room above a London pub, the Ukulele Orchestra is today a regular at British festivals such as Glastonbury and the Hay Festival of Literature. All consummate singers and strummers, they perform their own compositions, as well as covers of popular songs that emerge freshly minted: Ms. Dynamite's Dy-Na-Mi-Tee sounds less like rap and more like Prohibition-era honky-tonk, and Kate Bush's tremulous Wuthering Heights, sung stoically by orchestra leader George Hinchcliffe, is a strange brew indeed. Even better are the medleys, which might fuse up to seven songs, including a Handel air, Frank Sinatra...
...room above a London pub, the Ukulele Orchestra is today a regular at British festivals such as Glastonbury and the Hay Festival of Literature. All consummate singers and strummers, they perform their own compositions, as well as covers of popular songs that emerge freshly minted: Ms. Dynamite's Dy-Na-Mi-Tee sounds less like rap and more like Prohibition-era honky-tonk, and Kate Bush's tremulous Wuthering Heights, sung stoically by orchestra leader George Hinchcliffe, is a strange brew indeed. Even better are the medleys, which might fuse up to seven songs, including a Handel air, Frank Sinatra...
...round of heartfelt applause - but for his many contributions to ameliorating poverty and misery in the developing world, not for anything he has done to shake the rich half of Europe out of its slumber. Two years ago, at the Time Board of Economists in Davos, Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, said that Europe "has a tsunami coming its way" in the shape of competition from Asian and U.S. rivals. Yet as old manufacturing industrial areas are hollowed out - think of northern Italy - there is still no sign of urgency among...
...women in shape. Roommates are assigned and mealtimes set. Letting loose at a nightclub, as Anna Kournikova or Jennifer Capriati might, is forbidden. "Foreign coaches just teach you on the court," says Zheng. "Our Chinese coaches are involved in all aspects of our life." Indeed, 23-year-old Li Na, who was ranked 33 in the world last year, quit Chinese tennis in late 2002 for about a year partly because she felt the training was too regimented and outdated...