Under Thailand's Military Rule, Protesters Pick Up Books To Defy Coup

BANGKOK (AP) -- In junta-ruled Thailand, the simple act of reading in public has become an act of resistance. On Saturday evening in Bangkok, a week and a half after the army seized power in a coup, about a dozen people gathered in the middle of a busy, elevated walkway connecting several of the capital's most luxurious shopping malls. As pedestrians trundled past, the protesters sat down, pulled out book titles such as George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," a dystopian novel about life in a to...