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...Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is March 3 this year, so mark your calendars. New Orleans, the ultimate party town, starts celebrating about two weeks early. The exclusive balls have long been out, but it's not too late to join in the drinking and gallivanting that goes on every night in the French Quarter...
...actual day of Mardi Gras, many people turn out in costumes--some expensive and ornate, others hardly there. There's even a transvestite beauty contest on the street in the Quarter. The crowds in the Quarter have been known to get a little out of hand, and amateurs (especially Yankees) have to be careful not to get swept up in the masses swarming through the streets...
...that thesis or bio lab stops you from flying down South for Mardi Gras, don't despair. There's plenty to do over Spring Break. The temperature will be in the 70s or 80s, and the azaleas will be in their most exquisite phases of pink, red and white brilliance. And, yes, the drinking age will still...
...only one of many that swept Haiti last week. As the country's 6 million citizens adjusted to the realization that Baby Doc was gone for good, they exulted in what the Roman Catholic bishop of Cap Haitien called "our second independence." And although the annual pre-Lent Mardi Gras celebration was canceled for fear that the swelling crowds would become disorderly, there were noisy, exuberant gatherings across the land...
...favorite cuisine, he reasons, ought to be sufficient. No more. Last week French chefs banded together to challenge the world record for the longest buffet. The result of their labors: an 846-ft. table filled with an appetizing array of food. The creation was unveiled during a Mardi Gras celebration at the World Tourism and Travel Show in Paris and offered dishes representing all the departments of France, including the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Two hundred chefs served up their specialties by the meter...