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Granted, there remains an undeniable thrill in gazing out over the looping red ribbons of the Mekong and its tributary, the Ruak, and being able to see not one but two other countries, where vast stands of golden teak shimmer and hint at mysteries within. But it's a thrill tempered by the riot of ugliness erupting all around, and the creeping fear that another decade or so is all that separates this once lovely spot from becoming Pattaya-on-the-Mekong. "This was still mostly farmland 10 years ago," says Junfong Suphan, 48, a farmer who now sells counterfeit...
...from nearby Putten op de Veluwe and a candidate on Fortuyn's list, was left unimpressed in his frequent dealings with Van der Graaf. "You had the impression that he lived in his own world and didn't expect anyone outside it to understand him," he says. "His biggest thrill must have been when the local paper called him a 'green Robin Hood...
...only just stumbled across toothpaste, so there are no guarantees. Now I have cooled down somewhat as the novelty wears off—and Channel 7 no longer airs “Jeopardy!” at 7:30—but I still get a tremendously illicit thrill out of eating good pizza at midnight when you can scarcely buy it at noon in London...
Although he says he no longer feels the same thrill as he did when he was a beginner, he says he still loves...
...Greatest Show On Earth: There are animals, of course, walking improbably on their hind legs, but it's humans who elicit the held breath at the 132nd Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. In a computer-generated age, there's an odd thrill in seeing a real person do the undoable, like leap through a ring of flaming knives blindfolded. And the cheeky audience-participation antics of David Larible, above, make clowns seem almost hip. Almost...