Word: quests
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...city streets, where emergency travel kits had best include not just a bottle of Lomotil but also a bulletproof vest. The surprise is not that such dangers exist but that so many of the countries where they are commonplace want you to spend your vacation there. In the relentless quest for the tourist dollar, even places like Kashmir (400 civilians killed last month) and North Korea (no casualties, but why go?) are advertising their supposed charms. "Be a Chinese soldier for a day" gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "military tour." "Visit Shibam, famous for its exquisite Yemenite...
...Vienna Simon Wiesenthal, 84, the legendary pursuer who has helped uncover scores of Nazis, is not sanguine about chasing down many of the remaining fugitives. But he argues that criminal justice is not the entire purpose of his quest. "These crimes can't really be adequately punished anyway," he says. "I see what I'm doing as a warning to the murderers of tomorrow." A warning to them, he says, "that they will never rest in peace...
...more flamboyant journalistic talk shows have allowed themselves, for entertainment's sake, to be typecast. Here's the liberal, over there the conservative; here's the wimpy moderate, there the curmudgeonly old vet. They are not asked to analyze the news (as journalists on Washington Week are). In the quest for good ratings, they are required to have and express opinions -- baked, half-baked, and some not even close to the oven -- according to the roles they've been assigned. For many serious journalists, the broad effect has been pernicious. Says veteran network news executive Ed Fouhy: "One reason...
...issue drew national press attention in December 1991 with the release of a report from the Washington-based Center for public Integrity. The study was alarmingly titled "Buying the American Mind: Japan's Quest for U.S. Ideas in Science, Economic Policy and the Schools," and was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor...
Rescue will be under tight scrutiny because pro-life radicals stand accused of neglecting their quest's spiritual side and turning to bravado and brutality. In Milwaukee, not a Refuge city, one of the newer forms of protest is "speed-bumping" -- throwing oneself under the cars of patients headed for clinics. Local doctors have received death threats in person, and bullets were fired through a clinic window last week. Declares pro-choicer Joan Clark: "The blockaders are not from here. They're all from somewhere else, and they're paid by the missionaries. They're thugs, and they travel...