Word: islanders
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...young people were getting a little bored with football and baseball, while even more were on skateboards practicing their Ollies in mall parking lots across the country. ESPN spent a reported $10 million on the 1995 X Games, drawing some 200,000 spectators to the competition held in Rhode Island. Hailed (by ESPN) as a huge success, the Games, originally planned to be biennial, were quickly rescheduled to be held every year. In 1996, marketers promoted the remonickered X Games as "sheer unadulterated athletic lunacy." (See pictures of the World Bog Snorkelling Championships...
...What They're Applying for in Australia: When officials at Tourism Queensland published an online posting for a "dream job" as caretaker of Hamilton Island, the agency's website crashed after receiving more than 1 million hits in three days. The job, which pays $100,000 for a six-month stint, involves just 12 hours of "work" each month. Duties include swimming, fishing, snorkeling, producing a blog extolling the area's beauty and fetching mail...
Bali, whose mythic resorts have been struggling to fill their beachside villas during the global financial meltdown, has been hit by another unexpected crisis this month: rabies. The death toll from an outbreak on the island of 3.1 million people rose to six on Monday, adding to the woes already faced by the Indonesian province after the downturn in the world's economy...
...severity of the problem comes to light, the island is gearing up for a mass dog vaccination this weekend to help prevent the virus from spreading beyond the districts of Denpasar and Badung, where the first cases were reported in November. Since then, more than 6,200 dogs have been vaccinated and more than 280 stray dogs put to sleep. Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika has closed the island's borders to all dog traffic from outside, where the virus is believed to have originated...
...Past health scares, along with the two terrorist attacks on the island in the past six years, have already kept tourists away from this popular destination. During the regional SARS outbreak in the last decade, for instance, Japanese tourism to the island dropped dramatically. For now, the island's some 330,000 canine residents are being eyed with a new wariness. In the popular Legian area, where a foul stench permeates the strip of bars and clubs along the Double Six Road, the roaming gangs of dogs that have been fixtures in that area pose a new threat...