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...tried again comic genius of Murphy mixing with two-time Oscar-winner De Niro should prove an interesting combination. Despite building his career on serious roles in movies like The Godfather, Part II and Taxi Driver, De Niro has already successfully asserted his humorous side in Analyze This and Meet the Parents, alongside funnymen Billy Crystal and Ben Stiller, respectively...
...couldn't get a water taxi to take me out of town, however. That required a bit more planning. Once again I used history as my guide. For hundreds of years the Chao Phraya served as the main entrance to central Thailand. Immense wooden barges patrolled its banks, exchanging cargos of teak and rice for gold, precious stones and imported goods from abroad. The ancient Thai capital of Ayuthaya was considered to be the entryway to Asia and ambassadors from as far away as France, Portugal and Japan camped at its doorstep seeking concessions and passage from the Thai Kings...
...late afternoon, when the air is cooler and families sit out on their front porches preparing dinner. After a few hours of hearing nothing louder than the calls of cranes, Bangkok's rush and roar will be forgotten. The river oasis can be reached by water taxi from Nonthaburi for about $7 for a round trip...
RIVER BLEND The stilt village of Bang Yai, 12 km to the northwest of Bangkok, may seem like a long way to travel for coffee but Poon, my taxi-boat driver, promised me it was worth the trip when I stepped into his boat nursing a cup of Starbucks, of which he clearly disapproved. That's how my erstwhile tour of the old klongs of Bangkok was transformed into a quest for authentic kafae thung, or Thai bag coffee. We took off from Nonthaburi, a small town just north of Bangkok. As we quietly chugged through the network of canals...
...Yorker Levi Browde, a 29-year-old software engineer and Falun Gong practitioner, struck first. "I wanted people in China to see that Falun Gong is embraced around the world," he says. So he and a friend took a taxi to Tiananmen Square on Feb. 11, unfurled a banner reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD and in seconds were carted away by police. Three days later, more than 40 foreign demonstrators raced through the square as police chased them past astonished Chinese tourists who were spending the weeklong holiday in the capital. The foreigners had come, said the state-run Xinhua...