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...wide, powerful woman with an amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
...South Africans, picnicking on Table Mountain, the flat-topped granite promontory that dominates the dramatic skyline of Cape Town, is a time-honored way of ushering in the New Year. As 2000 approaches, the 3,500-ft. mountain will sport a new look: the giant image of a clock face will be projected onto the front of the cliff, with the city's inhabitants and summertime visitors able to count down the minutes to the millennium...
...Cape Town, the capital city where Nelson Mandela made his first public speech after his release from 27 years of imprisonment, is the focal point of South Africa's celebration. In the harbor on Robben Island, where Mandela spent most of his internment, an eternal flame of freedom will be lighted during a ceremony that will be televised around the world. "We are planning a message of light and of hope," says David Jack, who heads the Waterfront Project, one of the world's most ambitious dockland developments. The 15-year, $500 million undertaking, which includes five-star hotels, restaurants...
Plans for the millennium festivities include a nostalgic coastal voyage aboard a precise reproduction of a turn-of-the-century steamship. Says Sheryl Ozinksy, spokeswoman for Captour, Cape Town's tourist organization: "We want people to be telling their grandchildren they were in Cape Town for New Year 2000." By then, the city's hotel capacity will have nearly doubled, to around 15,000 beds, and prices will be in the $40-to-$150-a night range...
...Orioles fan who spent summers straining to hear faint radio signals from WBAL Baltimore while vacationing on Cape Cod, I never felt the pull of the nation's obsession with Ripken...