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Euro Disney isn't alone in seeing the European theme-park market as under-developed. This summer, Vivendi will open a new water park and two hotels alongside its Universal Studios Port Aventura park near Barcelona, making it the first competitor on a Disneyesque scale. At least three other large regional parks will launch in 2002. Bear, Stearns' Abramson sees the competition as a positive for Disney because it familiarizes Europeans with American-style theme parks. "Parks here have historically been some small amusement with a juggler and music playing somewhere," he says...
...help thinking of attacks by sharks as their revenge for our overfishing some shark species to the point of near extinction and for entangling and slowly killing them with factory-fishing drift nets that sweep the seas. GILBERT SCHWARTZ Aventura...
...ship that, ironically, is based in Heimaey's harbor, next to the bay that is Keiko's present home. Shipped to a marine park in Canada, Keiko did not respond well to captivity, and lesions started appearing on his skin. Within three years, he had been sold to Reino Aventura amusement park in Mexico City, where he spent 11 years in a small, warm concrete pool too shallow for a proper dive. He lost weight and became flabby and lethargic, and the viral skin infection spread. Reino Aventura tried to sell him, but no one wanted a sick whale...
...years ago, now jokingly call it "Brazil's fastest growing city." Last year they were so ubiquitous that Portuguese became the predominant language among shopkeepers in downtown Miami. This year it is the Argentines who have arrived in droves. "At any cocktail party in South America, if you mention Aventura or Dadeland, they know you're talking major shopping malls in Miami," says economist Manuel Lasaga, a Cuba-born immigrant...
According to Aidinoff, the play's income is derived mainly from ticket sales and advertisements in the show program. Reciprocal deals are also made with local stores like Top Copy and Cafe Aventura, which contribute services in exchange for an ad. A most notable contributor is Filene's department store, which this year is donating $250 worth of brassieres to support the show's efforts...