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...views of Bangkok, the Rang Mahal restaurant in the Rembrandt Hotel is flashy dining at its finest. And the sumptuousness doesn't stop at the kitchen door. For those who want to eat like royalty, the Maharajah menu?one of three set meals?offers a generous selection of delectable northern Indian dishes, including saffron-flavored fish and crispy fried Punjabi samosas. Thai Queen Sirikit has dined there "not once, not twice, but no less than three times," whispers the manager. A three-course set menu costs $20 per person. Call (662) 261 7100 for reservations...
...sight along the north's twisting mountain roads: the smoke-belching, gear-grinding, Eastern bloc motorcycle throwback that Vietnamese call con trau gia (the old buffalo). First imported from the Soviet Union in the 1960s, the Minsk's two-stroke engine and body have hardly changed over the years. Northern Vietnam has undeniably become Minsk country, and the old buffalo are used for everything, from personal transportation to hauling pigs, cows and chickens to hill-tribe markets...
...power problem in one bike that stumped four mechanics. But enthusiasts say it's all part of the Minsk experience. "Expect to have some fun improvising with gaffer tape, wire, sticks, rocks and tractor parts," reads the Hanoi-based Minsk Club's official repair manual. On Vietnam's winding northern tracks, the journey is often the destination?and so are the repairs...
Over the past few summers I have seen ten to twenty Northern Spotted Owls while working in the field with the Olympic National Park owl crew in Washington State. Today, a chance sighting of a spotted owl in the wilds is a rare and miraculous event; the population has dwindled to a few thousand birds. Forced from the dwindling groves of spruce and hemlock trees, the owls have retreated slowly westward over the last few decades. Now, just miles from the Pacific, in the low river valleys beneath the Olympic mountains, the spotted owl is living out its numbered days...
...faces no external military threats - its topography alone makes it a difficult country to contemplate invading. Its primary security concern is the domestic threat of Islamist terrorism, and obviously the SCUDs have little use in that battle. Despite recent rapprochement, Yemen has long had a tense relations with its northern neighbor, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh will share Washington's dismay at the news that the government in Yemen is trying to import medium-range missiles from North Korea...