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...Avatar a Native American story? -Robert Thijsen, Oranjestad, Aruba Not exclusively. I think Americans locate the story there most quickly. But Avatar's now the No. 1 movie in Brazil, and Brazil has a lot of issues with the displacement of indigenous populations and deforestation. There's a tribe in India that is getting pushed off its sacred mountain for a bauxite mine. The film is hugely popular in China, and people there are getting displaced by the government to build dams. So people are relating to it from all these different perspectives. (See pictures of James Cameron's best...
...Brown owns a four-bedroom, colonial-style home in Wrentham, Mass.; a six-room house in Rye, N.H.; three small condo units in Brighton, Mass.; and a time-share unit in Aruba...
...past, Darkhawk has tried to win the “Aruba Poker Classic” package, which includes airfare and a week-stay at a hotel, all advertised with the help of scantily clad females. “I was kinda close,” Darkhawk says. “I was getting really excited. It’s not like going to a poker tournament—it’s like a vacation.” He says the “Caribbean Poker Adventure” sounded pretty good, too. For many professionals, such luxuries are close...
...describe telling a biologist what you were writing about, and he says, "You should do a book called Warmth. You could do all the background research in Aruba." It's a fair point. Did that ever cross your mind? It crossed my mind a little bit, but it would have been darned inconvenient, since I live here in Alaska. Although I am working on a book now with the working title Heat: A Natural and Unnatural History. It takes the other direction on the thermometer and starts out looking at extreme heat with hydrogen-weapons testing that occurred here...
...Together Now. If you want to take the kids on vacation, the Westin Resort Aruba's "Delight in Family" getaway gives children under 12 two full days of complimentary admission to the Westin Kids Club (which usually costs $120 per child per day). Open daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 10 p.m, young'uns learn sandcastle building, go seashell hunting, feed iguanas and try coconut bowling, while you get lots of time to finish reading that novel on the beach. Rates start at $309 per night, based on two adults and two children, for stays between...