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...roof?as far forward as possible to avoid being soaked by spray. The Mekong is more than 1 km wide at this point, and fishermen throwing butterfly nets from bobbing sampans are a common sight. Arriving in Kratie at noon, you have time for lunch and a short siesta. Then hire a motorcycle taxi to the town's northern edge to see endangered freshwater dolphins frolicking just off the river bank in the late afternoon...
...open-ended general strike until Milosevic steps down, was scheduled to start at 2 p.m. But not enough people showed up. So opposition leader Zoran Djindjic told everyone to go home and get some rest, and come back at 8 p.m. So the revolution was postponed for a siesta...
...cultural phenomena we might have borrowed from Europe--legal red-light districts, the siesta, pretty money--we get this. Sixteen men and women maroon themselves for as long as 39 days on an isolated tropical island, building driftwood huts and lunching on rats. Meanwhile, 10 folks agree to spend as long as three months sequestered, sleeping in communal bedrooms and living without TV or newspapers in a house that lacks only pencil shavings on the floor to qualify as a human hamster cage--all for cash prizes, under constant camera surveillance for a prime-time audience...
...throw beat McKendry to the plate, but she made a perfect slide away from the tag of Princeton catcher Vicki Siesta. That stretched the lead...
...final insult, Godfree hit a short ground ball in front of the plate with the bases loaded. While freshman Monica Montijo was forced out at home, Siesta sent the ball past the first baseman into right field while going for the double play. Amberg came around to score, and the game was over...