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...what to do when full-moon parties draw more visitors than your national treasures? Thailand has made various attempts to play down, and then clamp down on, the sex and drugs that have titillated and lured the wrong kind of visitors?but to no avail. The newest approach is a mingling of high and low culture in Chiang Rai province's royally sponsored Mae Fah Luang Foundation's Hall of Opium. There is a certain brilliance to marketing the infamy of the Golden Triangle. This is one of those rare nether regions that lives up to the swashbuckling image that...
...helicopter money." "Just because you fly around sprinkling the ground with cash doesn't mean people are going to spend it," he says. And the second option? The BOJ has been quietly buying greater quantities of government bonds since early 2001, expanding the monetary base by 38%?to no avail...
...story to date" to familiarize the uninformed reader. The casual fan who picks up the novel out of nostalgia for a dimly remembered past will be disappointed. A spotty recollection of old cartoon shows and a catchy jingle ("Transformers...More than meets the eyes...Transformers..Robots in Disguise!") will avail one little. Readers are simply dropped into the middle of events without preparation or explanation, alienating them from the start. As a result, enjoyment of the novel will increase exponentially with increased knowledge of the Transformers world. In all fairness, the Transformers continuity has had twenty years to develop...
...East, you will probably come across more brown bears along the trail than of foreign tourists. The first bear we encountered, a ragged eight-footer, ignored us as it lumbered squarely in our path while foraging for blueberries. Our guide fired his rifle into the air to no avail. After an hour's wait in cold drizzle, we crept past the munching behemoth, which glanced at us indifferently. A kilometer or so later, a mother with two cubs charged at us from the far side of a stream but lost interest as we scurried away. "Only if the marmots...
...points scored by Bell on the night were the most Harvard had surrendered to a single player this season. Several different Crimson players guarded him to no avail, largely because he was so precise from the line. Merchant, who was on Bell for much of the second half, suggested his reputation was as much a boon to him as his talent...