Word: aruba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back to Tonya. "We had a decision to make," Solomon says. He and Kerrigan knew "that going into the Olympics, this was going to be a big topic, and we could talk about it, or we could have gone to Aruba for a month...
Wait a second here. The choice was a) going to Aruba, or b) hanging out with the gum-smacking queen of all time, and you picked Tonya...
...Africa. In 1991 Lewis, who by then had started a company named the Plantworks, was hired to decorate a new entertainment complex called Lost City. She produced an indoor mock version of the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Since then she has created artificial environments for casinos in Switzerland, Peru, Aruba and the Philippines. Plantworks has grown into a company employing 21 workers and chalking up annual sales of $2 million, as much as 20% of that abroad; president Lewis thinks it may double sales every year for the next five years...
...forest. A study shows that only half the watershed's nearly 5,000 sq. mi. of forest produces enough sable, deer and elk to support hunters. And a single tribal hunter must roam a territory as large as 75 sq. mi.--about the size of the Caribbean island of Aruba--to trap enough fur and hunt enough meat to live on. That allowance is calculated to provide wildlife the space and opportunity to reproduce and maintain stable populations. The Bikin Valley has 47 hunters licensed to hunt full time in the territory, which already presses the limits of the available...
...door. That evening, as we sipped our lonely pint in the neighborhood pub, we reflected that perhaps a career in journalism was not for us. On the other hand, we didn't know what was. How we envied the Ms. Werners of the world, who could jet off to Aruba whenever they felt sulky...