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...office, has been designed to attract "the more sophisticated traveler, anxious to try a new experience, something more casual." The variety is unending. New York City's American Museum of Natural History sponsors scientific tours of the Nile, the Black Sea and African game parks. Nature Enthusiast Hanns Ebensten leads a springtime voyage to the arctic ice floes to watch seals giving birth. The Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, of Cambridge, Mass., mounts crash expeditions to disasters like the volcanic explosion of Heimaey Island off Iceland...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...
...Sales were up 3%, to $864 million. In February Genesco was able to market a $70 million bond issue that will enable it to get past the November deadline for repaying much of its long-term debt. Says Jarman, 44, a former naval reserve pilot and hot-air balloon enthusiast who salts his conversation with aviation lingo: "We're committed to takeoff...
...glimpse of the TV monitors mounted along the parapets. Those who had hired opera glasses in the foyer (deposit $25, or a California state driver's license: realists, the concessionaires) trained them on the TV sets. Where else in the world, and on what other occasion, could an enthusiast spend so much money on limos, hairdresser, clothes, ticket, only to end up watching television through a magnifying lens in the distant but verifiable presence of a real event...
...most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that really destroyed his credibility. One of Lanier's partners was a scuba enthusiast, and fooled Spiro into expanding on the subject, about which Pavlovich knew nothing. The firm contacted Tulane University, then Harvard Law. Harvard asked King and Spaulding if it wished to press charges, but the firm declined--Spiro hadn't even sent them a bill for the hotel...