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...elderly monarch, an heir with a troubled marriage, rumors of adultery...but wait. This heir is Crown Prince MAHA VAJIRALONGKORN of Thailand. Concern about his temperament rose recently when an official document was posted outside his palace alleging that his second wife, whom he married two years ago (although they have five children), was having an affair with an air force officer who worked for the royal family. The document bars the alleged adulterers from the palace, adding, "Should they be seen, the public is requested to chase them away...
...justify the grief. So Gifford wrote checks and went on Larry King Live and launched a crusade. And the more she succeeds, the clearer it becomes that even the purest consumer can't avoid complicity. The trousers are from Honduras, the orange juice from Brazil, the teddy bear from Thailand. "I like a cheap shirt," admits a Labor Department administrator, "so I'm guilty...
...hollowing out." Giants like Sony and Toyota are investing in China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the U.S. but not in Japan. Currently, for example, Japan imports 2 1/2 times as many television sets as it exports. They are all assembled in Japanese-owned factories in places like Malaysia and Thailand. By the year 1998, Toyota expects that 65% of the cars it sells around the world will be made outside Japan...
...media's focusing so much attention on these murdered white, middle-class children while all but ignoring the equally unthinkable deaths of other youngsters: the street children of Rio de Janeiro, periodically murdered by authorities and vigilantes when their numbers grow too large; the child sex workers of Thailand and Indonesia, who die slow and painful deaths when they are infected with aids or addicted to drugs; the uncounted thousands of children of Rwanda, hacked to pieces for being Hutu or Tutsi. These children were murdered by monsters every bit as scary as the psychotic who killed the Dunblane children...
...popular term Siamese twins originated with a celebrated pair named Eng and Chang, born in Siam (Thailand today) and exhibited across the U.S. from 1829 to 1840. Eng and Chang, who lived to the ripe old age of 63--still a record for conjoined twins--were connected at the chest by a flexible band of cartilage. (Modern surgeons could have separated them easily.) Connections at the chest and abdomen are the most frequent configuration for conjoined twins, though medical texts list more than a dozen possible permutations. Dicephalic twins like the Hensels, who have two heads but share...