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...allow for the differing energy and attention levels of the eight-year-old and the 80-year-old. When Familyhostel's tour of Greece reaches Delphi, reports director Robert McCaffery, the kids run to the top of the hill and around the stadium, working off energy, while the grandparents absorb history at ground level. Still, as Elderhostel's Richard Harris says, "any grandparent may find a whole week in charge of a child pretty exhausting...
...entitled to the same rights, and certainly no individual or group of guests are allowed to do anything to damage the tourism business in Bali, or tarnish Bali?s image as an enlightened, friendly place. Having already resisted the Muslim expansion for 700 years, and having learned to absorb three million tourists a year while keeping their traditional culture, the Hindu Balinese are not about to allow outsiders to run their affairs...
...Meanwhile, the notion that China can be an engine for growth in Asia has pretty much gone out the window. None of the region's ailing economies exports enough to China to make up for a badly deflated U.S. market. "There's no way that China is going to absorb Asia's downside," says Kim of Goldman Sachs...
...chairman) would never dream of picking winners and losers, never play Big Government in Wall Street?s backyard. But there is the small matter of possibly getting the money back at some point, and the worse off an airline is the more likely it is to merely absorb the funds and continue on the same flight path to insolvency it was on before Sept. 11. And then come back for more money...
...friends, from your entryway or your section, who are interested in forming a study group for a course. Have each person summarize some of the material and pool your knowledge. Get together the night before a test, order pizza, and discuss the reding. Not only will you absorb more of the important information more quickly than you would have otherwise, but the process of digesting the information, in an informal setting, will teach you more about the material (and about your fellow students) than a section ever could...