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...bags of groceries at Broadway Market, you can find yourself in a quaint French café, being treated like shit by a French waiter. Caribbean cruise: Board the Carnival Destiny (what does that even mean?) for a voyage around the southern Caribbean, stopping in exotic locations like Domenica, Antigua, and St. Maarten. If you’re really feeling badass, hit up the sweet “Millionaire’s Club Casino.” Except if you really were a millionaire, you wouldn’t be on a Caribbean cruise. Isle of Man: If you like cold...
...Roth, an American. Last spring, armed gunmen held up Escobar in the storage room of her Guatemala City shoe store while two female accomplices stole her 6-month-old daughter Esther. Escobar, 26, is convinced the baby was put up for illegal adoption, and she came to Antigua to see if Esther was one of the infants found at Casa Quivira. "We are not animals to be bought and sold," she says, clutching Esther's photo. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Roth had been waiting with her husband David to adopt a boy and a girl from Casa Quivira - but now, after...
Earlier this month, dozens of Guatemalan police, soldiers and government officials raided Casa Quivira, a foster home in the colonial town of Antigua. They took custody of 46 babies and accused the home of failing to issue the proper paperwork for adoptions. Worse, says Carmen de Wennier, Guatemala's Secretary for Social Welfare, Casa Quivira is being investigated for illegally trafficking infants, an accusation that its owners vehemently deny: "If these children were bought in the womb," de Wennier says, "that is a crime...
...second hubby, a back-up dancer. Spears' recent post-divorce wild-child phase has escalated from pantyless cavorting with Paris Hilton to a self-administered buzz cut at a beauty salon in California's San Fernando Valley. Between one-day dips in and out of rehab facilities in Antigua and Malibu, Calif., Spears also got new tattoos--a cross on her hip and red-and-pink lips on her wrist--and partied pitiably in a blond wig. Meanwhile, the proprietors of the Tarzana, Calif., salon where she shaved her head have put Spears' locks up for sale on the Internet...
...boom has its ugly-American side. Beachfront development has devastated parts of the reef around the diver's paradise of Roatn, the best-known of Honduras' storied Bay Islands. And although Antigua and Costa Rica are relatively safe, burglaries are up in Honduras, driving the development of gated communities. But Bill and Judith Allred, who in 1998 bought a pod-style home in Roatn conceived by the Canadian designer Hal Sorrenti, say common sense helps ward off crime. "This isn't St. Barts," says Judith. "You don't go out at night wearing jewels...