Bangkok Has That Sinking Feeling

October 20, 2007 By DENIS D. GRAY, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea.

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