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...reason, I think, is guilt. About 11 million Americans will travel abroad this summer--80% of them as tourists. And such hordes can quickly ruin the very places they love. That's why environmental groups were so quick to criticize plans recently announced by the Mexican government to develop Baja California's unspoiled eastern coast. Those who remember a charming locale before the tourists arrived understandably sigh for the past. I have just returned from a week visiting friends in Crete, where a mountain gorge that I first hiked in solitary silence in 1973 now sees 260,000 visitors...
...Colombian women. And patience with the Arellanos may be wearing thin among the Colombian cartels, which are often led by cultured narco-dons who view their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because it had failed to tell the Colombian pilots, who were delivering 20 tons of cocaine, that landing in the sand would wreck the jet engines...
Luna died smiling. The bottle-nosed dolphin was captured last December off the southwest coast of Baja California. For two hours, she traveled in a coffin-like trailer with virtually no water. When she arrived at her destination, an aquarium at La Concha Beach Resort in La Paz, Mexico, she was carried in a makeshift hammock and deposited on a sandy beach. She tried to bite her handlers, but her protest went unheeded. She was forced to frolic and swim with tourists in a pen. After five weeks, she died--from stomach inflammation and ulcers caused by stress, according...
...power from El Paso [Texas] to B.C., you have to settle 10 or 12 different contracts," says Dennis Eyre, executive director of the Western Systems Coordinating Council in Salt Lake City, Utah, an organization that groups producers and suppliers in 14 Western states, plus British Columbia and Alberta, and Baja California in Mexico. "Now there will just be three organizations in our region." Eyre acknowledges that RTOs would not have prevented California's plunge into darkness, but they "will begin to get the market together over the next several years...
...this seemed possible because John F. Kennedy Jr. had such a complex relationship with his own fame--sometimes amused, often appalled, always highly ironic toward the weirdness in which he lived. He had to get away from it sometimes--to Baja, to Alaska, up in the Piper Saratoga--because his celebrity had never not been there. He couldn't tell you where the media images of his childhood ended and his own memories began, and learning to live with its effects hadn't been easy. People were always approaching him, always wanting something from him, but he stood...