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...tourism industry, "cultures and societies become commodities to be consumed by an external audience." Ecotourists create "a huge economic, environmental and social impact merely by arriving in a developing country," Duffy points out. In their "self-indulgence," she adds, they are little different from conventional tourists; they too are "powerless to minimize the impact they have" on a country and "given the chance, they would not anyway." It is in these arguments that Duffy blossoms. Paradigms and impact spirals and political color charts give way to emotional venting against ecotourists who, "at an individual level, cannot be relied...
...reported to have been found 30 km away on Saturday, and two people were arrested in connection with the case. So many shocking stories, so suddenly - a genuine crime wave or media hysteria? Or is it that in a time of lurking new risks over which people feel largely powerless - terrorist cells in the suburbs, underground Iraqi bioweapons labs - a fixation on solvable, specific mysteries is strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks to mass alerts that deputized thousands of citizens at a stroke, it has succeeded in bringing home...
...deaths?as well as more than 600 illnesses linked in Japan to Chinese diet pills?have alerted health authorities to a hazard they have been almost powerless to stop. Similar drugs were implicated in deaths in China last year, with scores more falling ill in Korea and Hong Kong. Japan last month banned 24 types of Chinese diet drugs?many containing N-nitroso fenfluramine?and rushed through new laws placing the burden on importers to prove product safety or face a fine of up to $26,000. Just last week, health officials in China published a ban on 13 diet...
...street shattered the window of another camper’s room. Fortunately no one was injured, but we had to move the kids to a different room on a different floor until the window could be repaired—in the middle of the night. Campus police were powerless because the frat house was situated just outside the border of University property. Again my patience surprised...
...tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People's Literature Publishing House, Harry's official Mandarin translator, seems powerless to protect its copyright. An official box set of the first three Potter books was published in October 2000 with an initial printing of 600,000 copies, which means Rowling may be China's biggest author since Mao. But circulation of illegal copies has cut into her official sales. One thing...