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...Every summer they descend on Althorp, the historical home of Diana?s family, where for $25 they can walk through the rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain and far beyond. Her likeness is etched onto stacks of commemorative coins - the Royal Mint...
...woman in red satin pants makes her way down the boardwalk on stilts, passing a man shouldering two parrots and a python. It's summertime again at Coney Island, the New York City neighborhood long known for its carnival atmosphere and amusement parks by the sea. This year, though, the mood isn't entirely festive. Uncertainty shrouds the original America's Playground, from the wood-trestled Cyclone roller coaster to the billboard counting down the days until Nathan's annual hot-dog-eating contest. An ambitious real estate developer has bought up two-thirds of Coney Island's main amusement...
...many ways, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Coney Island has fallen long and hard from its apex in the early 20th century, when its grandiose rides and spectacles--it once featured a Lilliputian village populated with 300 midgets--were a must-see, even for A-list tourists like Charles Lindbergh and Sigmund Freud, who supposedly declared Coney Island the only part of America that interested him. In the decades that followed, TV and air travel provided other options for escape, as parts of the neighborhood were razed for public housing. Revival-minded artists have partly displaced...
Joseph Sitt, the Brooklyn-born developer whose company paid $150 million for 10 acres of central Coney Island, wants to restore the splendor. His plan includes an indoor water park, two hotels and a roller coaster that wraps in and out of buildings. That a large investor has come to the neighborhood is a vindication of the city's strategy to spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade...
...Francois Mitterrand has recouped his popularity. But Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan are due to step down soon, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is in severe political trouble at home. No wonder that their deliberations in a 17th century monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, hard by the Grand Canal, came to be christened the "Bland Canal" summit...