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...That shouldn't be a problem in the first round. Croatia, whose technique and style lit up France '98, is an aging team, and it has already lost one star in Igor Tudor. But even Croatia's second best should be enough to topple Mexico and tourist-class Ecuador, ensuring that it advances along with Italy...
...dozen or so children clad in gaudy hill-tribe garb jump into everyone's photographs, invited or not, then proffer palms for payment. Refusal is not brooked kindly, and even the most tightfisted succumb under the onslaught of teary eyes, wailing and shirt tugging. "Everyone can smell the tourist dollars," says Miss Pim, owner of the Arabica coffee shop, as she bustles around fixing espressos and cappuccinos. "Once people start making money, everyone wants a piece...
...taste of opium, once the unofficial mainstay of hill-tribe trekking tours, will be disappointed by Ban Lorcha. Instead they are better off taking a turn through Chiang Rai shops for "authentic" hill-tribe opium pipes?made in China. It's the modern way to get the tourist hooked...
...style, consider a night or two at Le Meridien Baan Boran, for a room with a great view. Perched on a ridge amid some 160 hectares of bamboo and teak, every room offers stunning vistas of this intersection of nations?and you're safely removed from the tacky tourist mayhem and noisy "longtail" boats below. The Meridien's impeccable service and graceful traditional architecture moved the Tourism Authority of Thailand to proclaim it northern Thailand's best hotel. Prices start at $55 for a room and $82 for a suite, not including breakfast; call (66-53) 784-078 for reservations...
...luxury apartment in Phnom Penh six months ago. Journalists didn't spot him either, although Glitter had dinner at the riverside Foreign Correspondents Club almost every night for three weeks. Without his bouffant wigs, penciled eyebrows and too-tight jumpsuit, Glitter, 58, came off as just another eyebrow-raising tourist?a big-bellied man with money, who kept to himself and sometimes dined with a young girl...