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Perhaps we shall see a separate line at the department of motor vehicles for Lexus and BMW owners, and Marshall Field's will usher the preferred children forward to see Santa, and there will be a platinum section of Central Park, and why not a gold-club voting machine for people who pay more than $100,000 in income tax, and a concierge-class birthing room at the hospital--pay extra for same-day delivery. But before we get there, consider the cost...
PLEADED GUILTY. PRINCESS ANNE, 52, of England; to violating Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act by allowing her bull terrier, Dotty, to run loose and bite two young children in Windsor Great Park; in Slough, England. The first modern royal convicted of a criminal offense, she was fined $785 and ordered to pay $393 in compensation...
...post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...
...would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places on earth...
...collapsed in the wake of perestroika, as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As one park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...