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...only travel a few days a week. Where's the money to be made in that?" On average, his flights are 75% full, and 93% of those passengers are international tourists. Tourists for whom Prasarttong-Osoth has great plans. As part of his Mekong region tourism development scheme, Prasarttong-Osoth has started building a five-star eco-resort on the spacious grounds of the six-year-old Sukhothai Airport, which is only a 15-minute drive from the 9th century temple ruins of the UNESCO-listed World Heritage site of the same name. The resort, like the airport, will resemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Big Little Airline | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...plot to bomb airliners as they crossed the Pacific. Now they want to talk to him about a plan that worked. Mohammed, 37, who was born in Kuwait, is believed to have been a key player in the Sept. 11 attacks. "He was involved in every aspect--concocting the scheme, training, financing," says a U.S. official. Mohammed has been fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden now in U.S. custody at a secret location, and by some al-Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials are still not sure of Mohammed's precise role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face Behind 9/11 | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain he is the man they want. In 1995 Mohammed was in Manila, where Yousef planned the so-called Bojinka (Serbo-Croat for explosion) plot to blow up airliners as they flew from Asia to the U.S. The scheme was uncovered when a fire broke out in an apartment doubling as a bomb factory. Yousef escaped, only to be captured in Pakistan a month later, but documents and computers left in the apartment linked Mohammed to Bojinka, and he was indicted as a co-conspirator. In 1996 he evaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face Behind 9/11 | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does a favor for a New York-based Russian mafioso, who pays him back by sending him to the East European city of Prava--read Prague--to run a pyramid scheme aimed at slumming young expats, the "pretty castoffs of well-to-do America, cruising along on their five-year plan of alcoholic self-discovery." They're easy marks, and easy targets for satire too. In less skillful hands, The Russian Debutante's Handbook could have turned into a fish-in-barrel exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocents Abroad | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

Halfway through the year, Kerr reverted back to the old 4-4-2 scheme. The Crimson’s ability to switch back and forth between the two formations added an element of unpredictability that made Harvard hard to scout...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COACH OF THE YEAR: John Kerr | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

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