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...suppose that most tourists are similar around the globe, but D.C. tourists rank above travelers to any other city. People don't come to Washington to relax or catch a show or see Elvis' house. They flock to the capital to learn, celebrate America and be the best gosh darn patriotic citizens they can be--even the foreigners, which I will never understand. During their delves into American heritage, these people really appreciate D.C. as the gorgeous marble city that it is. They appear almost childlike to me. At times I even get the impression that they think wearing...
...largest New England state, Maine, boasts both a beautiful, lighthouse-studed coastline and majestic inland mountain peaks. The AT terminates at Mt. Katahdin, and shoreline ports and Kennebunk and Bar Harbor draw thousands of visitors annually. Tourists also flock to Freeport to shop at L.L. Bean...
...raises the bar again. Three years in the making at Sony's 989 Studios in San Diego, it's the role-playing market's first 3-D online world, a lush environment reminiscent of immersive shoot-'em-ups like Quake and Doom. The Everquest team, says 989 president Kelly Flock, took a chance by deciding to leap-frog the 2-D Ultima and create a game so graphics-rich it would require a 3-D-accelerated PC in order to play...
...enthusiasts, you ain't seen nothin' yet. In a few years, predicts Flock, "people are going to have faster connections and processors, more memory and more storage. These worlds are going to become the dominant form of entertainment." Which should even bring down the cost of those Mytheral breastplates...
...predicted he?d be around for the turning of the Big Odometer, and John Paul took it -? and the Jubilee that would mark it -- very seriously. The next 20 years, from his precedent-bending inaugural speech from the Vatican balcony to his two-week pilgrimage to thank his first flock, were a run-up to this, a global celebration of humanity and the faith 1 billion of them hold dear. He worked tirelessly to bring his church everywhere it was wanted, and insisted just as tirelessly that this church would still be recognizable to him when he was done...