Word: sicklied
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...guaranteed to take you to the ports shown on the brochures. Travel companies know it's good business sense to keep passengers happy, so they'll usually try to compensate customers, perhaps with a refund and a free cruise offer. But if you've just spent a couple weeks sick at sea, that may be the last thing you want...
...Until Big got sick. Big is Thai pop star Apichet Kittikorncharoen, the 21-year-old lead singer of the successful boy band D2B. On his way home from a rehearsal session in late July, Big accidentally drove his car into a klong. A passerby jumped into the water, pulled him from the car and performed CPR. And Big?to the relief of hordes of Thai teens?breathed again. Though badly shaken, he was expected to make a quick recovery...
...Keeping those memories alive is increasingly difficult. When the wind blows hard enough, her potted plants topple into the klong. She used to pay kids to jump in and retrieve them. Now, no amount of money can entice them into the water. Why? "Because Big got sick," she says...
...Until Big got sick. Now, klong coliform levels are printed in newspapers. Radio stations have been swamped with callers complaining about skin diseases they suspect they have contracted from riverboat taxi rides. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is demanding answers from bureaucrats. Pornpot has none. "The problem should have been dealt with 20 years ago when Bangkok's population began to boom," he says. "But it wasn't and now we are in serious trouble...
When is this team finally going to show that it’s sick of hearing those words? As soon as it can beat Cornell, Boston University and other NCAA Tournament teams—something it didn’t do all last year...