Word: thailand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wound" of his defeat is rarely glimpsed these days. He moves too fast. He has been to England, Sweden, China, Hong Kong, Taipei, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Kuwait, Mexico -- some of them twice -- and endless American cities. Once or twice each week he is airborne, generally in commercial planes. He earns between $70,000 and $100,000 per speech. He also gives a lot of free pep talks at fund raisers for friends...
...Jade helped a wounded prison guard reach a hospital (where North Vietnamese doctors shrugged and amputated a nearly healed leg). Jade managed to slip away into the chaos of a broken society. A boyhood friend sheltered him, and they scrabbled to find money for an escape by boat to Thailand. Twice they were turned back. Before the third attempt was successful, pirates boarded their boat, stole everything and raped the women. Jade and one of his brothers found their way to a refugee camp and spent months becalmed there, far down a long list of prospective emigres...
During his six-week sojourn in Thailand last summer, Roy Prieb '95 received a marriage proposition. "I was walking along the main street in Nan, which is a small close-knit village in southern Thailand, when I met these two old ladies, who started chatting with me," says Prieb, who speaks Thai fluently. "Next thing I know, they try to set me up with their granddaughters...
Lorena Bobbitt is not the first woman to have ever sliced up part of a man's genitals. According to an article in theAmerican Journal of Surgery, in Thailand in the mid 1970s at least 100 women foreshortened their philandering husbands and threw their penises out the window--a practice dubbed in local terms "feeling the ducks". But Americans need not look beyond their own continent to find other examples--in Canada two years ago a 48 year old woman who castrated her husband was also acquitted, like Lorena Bobbitt, on the grounds that she was a battered woman...
...eerie, being up here this close," says Craig Martin, a Waco TV production supervisor who covered the siege from a mile away. He is snapping photos of his parents, Baptist missionaries visiting from Thailand. "I could see how it burned so fast in this wind," observes a tourist from Minnesota, "but what really happened...