Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his restless charge has settled down: ``I'm not saying he goes to bed at 10 p.m., but usually by midnight, yes.'' Many followers also believe that his engagement to Martina Colombari, a 20-year-old former Miss Italy, has cooled Tomba's boogie-all- night habits at resort discos. True? Says Tomba: ``They seem to forget that I've been with her for three years.'' Still, he acknowledges being ``just a little more serious...
...only come to Lamont when I really have to get something done," says the Lowell senior. "It's a last resort. [Usually I study] at cafes, somewhere...
...resort island of Cavallo, off southern Corsica, at least three different explosive devices set off during the night caused extensive damage to 66 apartments and businesses owned mostly by mainland French residents and foreigners. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, but authorities suspect separatist militants who have been seeking to end French rule over the Mediterranean island. No deaths or injuries were reported...
Welcome to the World's Largest Tiger Farm,'' says the green-and-blue sign outside Somphong Temsiriphong's new zoo. The Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. is certainly a breed apart. Down a country road 2 1/2 hours from the roar of Bangkok traffic, the private reserve is home to an eclectic collection of wallabies, deer, camels and 20,000 Asian crocodiles. But the budding zookeeper's pride--and the source of considerable controversy among conservationists around the world--is his menagerie of 35 hybrid Asian tigers. ``Some of these animals are becoming extinct, and I want to have...
Meanwhile, the Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. keeps expanding. Somphong hopes to earn millions of dollars from legal trade in crocodile skins and crocodile meat, which he claims is the best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come...