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...year-old son was demanding to wear his T-shirt from our vacation on Bali. Getting him to focus on anything in the mornings, let alone sartorial choices, can be an ordeal. So Bali it was. It was only after we walked outside into the tropical heat of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, that we realized just how monumental a mistake we had made. Thais in the parking lot stared. The whispering began. Could it be that a blond American toddler had knowingly dressed himself in a red shirt...
...Thailand, people literally wear their politics on their sleeves. The nation has been locked for years in a paralyzing political showdown between two camps. There are the red shirts, who support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup and later convicted in absentia of abuse of power. And there are the establishment yellow shirts, who back current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. On March 12, around 100,000 red shirts, whose numbers are drawn largely from Thailand's poor rural regions, began descending on Bangkok by bus, truck, boat and tractor for what they deemed...
...anomaly that Toyota's engineers couldn't explain was the heavy wear on the front brakes, which Toyota officials admitted was consistent with Sikes' assertion that he tried to brake...
...noon, hundreds of protesters, known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, were lining up at makeshift medical tents to donate 10 cc of blood each to be pooled and spilled Tuesday evening in front of Government House, the offices of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. The symbolic blood gesture comes one day after Abhisit spurned the protesters' demands to resign and hold new elections...
Shoes matter a lot too, don't they? Yes, they really do. You can kill your entire outfit with shoes. Everybody looks better in a heel, and I know once you reach a certain age you don't want to wear a seven-inch heel or a five-inch heel or maybe even a four-inch heel, but if you could just wear a little heel, and sometimes a platform shoe could be a little easier. If you wear a pump with a platform, it could be easier to walk on, and then a thicker heel could be easier...