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...wasn't until the fall of the Soviet Union that cheap Russian ice vessels and their crews became available to tour operators, and Antarctic tourism could really begin to develop, with the 1990-91 season setting a then record of 4,698 shipborne arrivals. Some predict that by 2005 as many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights...
...meeting last year, held to draw up a response to Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, the Italian Prime Minister had other things on his mind. "I have a solution to the vision of Europe," said Berlusconi, who had just returned from Moscow after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We must make Russia a member of the E.U." The foreign ministers in the room were flabbergasted, according to a diplomat who was there, not only because Berlusconi was ignoring the issue at hand, but because he didn't seem to know that Russia wouldn't qualify...
There are sunbathers and readers and yoga-doers basking on the lawn of City Hall, the only good green space on Mass. Ave. for quite a stretch. There are people speaking Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, new immigrants and old, homeless and fortune-seekers, yuppies and yippies...
...whether I was any good at it." She's so good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal judge found that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud...
...pavilion was the air conditioning. You'd never guess any of this from Krens' demeanor in Venice. At the Biennale, he is all charm and confidence. This is Europe, where Krens has forged some of the Guggenheim's most important business and artistic ties, including close alliances with the Russian State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. Europe also provides the most ringing endorsement for his expansion program: the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao and Berlin are both Krens' babies. The Bilbao Guggenheim was Krens' first step toward turning the Guggenheim into a world brand, a pioneering...