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...even have to leave Bangkok for some choice courses. You can stay downtown, and play downtown, if you're invited by a member of the Bangkok Sports Club?a 3-iron from the Rajadamri skytrain station between Siam Square shopping centers and Silom office towers. Some golfers never leave the airport area. Hole one of the Kantarat, the Thai air-force course, stretches between runways. It used to be open to anyone, but since the November 2002 attempted rocket attack on a plane in Kenya, the runway links have been closed to nonmembers to keep terrorists from pulling a surface...
...some of the drivers have become a bit greedy. They are used to getting big fares from tourists, and you have to remind them you're Thai." She worries that someday tuk tuks may vanish altogether from Bangkok roads: "It's true, a lot more people are taking the Skytrain or taxis. I know a lot of my friends think tuk tuks are too dangerous and smelly, too low class to be seen in. But I'll be out of business if they ever disappear...
After a neck-wrenching look at Hystar, a visitor might do well to take the SkyTrain, a monorail actually, to the main part of Expo back across town on a 173-acre site along a harbor inlet. Most people probably will feel duty bound to see the pavilions of the Big Three, the U.S., the Soviet Union and China. The bad news is they are far apart from one another, and the lines in front are among the longest; the worse news is that they all seem to have signed a big-power pact to be boring...
...only real problem Expo 86 seems to face is overpopularity. Lines are already long and tedious, and despite the SkyTrain, the best way to get around --often the only way--is on foot. You heard it here first: take comfortable shoes and plenty of patience...
...Skytrain was so popular and profitable that in the past two years Laker, who owns 90% of the airline, borrowed $359 million to expand his fleet of DC-10s and Airbus A300s with the intention of adding new services between European and Asian capitals. Then trouble struck. Fuel prices surged, recession in the U.S. and Europe cut into passenger traffic, and the rise of the dollar's value against the pound upset Laker's balance sheet. Much of his revenue was in pounds, but he had to make debt payments in dollars...