Word: simeon
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Ecotourism does not always produce such benign results. In Ladakh, a remote Himalayan region in northern India, rural communities are overrun each summer by trekkers and their hungry ponies, which are destroying the limited vegetation. In Kenya's famed Masai Mara Reserve, overcrowding has become "a nightmare," says Simeon Kanani of Nairobi's Technical and Study Tours. In the mid-1990s the local county council earned $1 million a month for schools and hospitals from gate receipts, but at a price. "If you have 20 to 30 four-wheel drives in the park, is that ecotourism?" asks Kanani...
...Look at these spaces," says chief designer Simeon Bruner, marveling at the hulking, bricky, fortress-of-industry buildings. "What did we do to them? Nothing. We just cleaned them up a little." It's a likably egoless statement from an architect, and he's right. The makers of Mass MoCA had sense enough to leave the buildings alone. Perhaps they should have held back more; the less renovated spaces are the most enticing...
...several years prior to 1995, Guild and her partner were residents of The Piano Factory, a South End artists' commune which landlord Simeon Breuner had built from an abandoned piano factory...
...several years prior to 1995, Guild and her partner were residents of The Piano Factory, a South End artists' commune which landlord Simeon Breuner had built from an abandoned piano factory...
...beat up in the playground could make it big in the land of opportunity. But the world's richest man made the classic hubristic mistake: building what one newspaper called the "new Xanadu" and bragging about it. Gates' high-tech haven would top even Hearst's epically garish San Simeon as the most grandiose castle in America. But as Hearst once quipped of his estate--which housed, among other things, a large zoo--"Pleasure is what you can afford to pay for it." And Gates is richer than Hearst ever dreamed of being, as his "tastes" reveal: an indoor pool...