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...been leased out. An intended 12-story dormitory, half a block from his showcase Family Worship Center, stands abandoned in mid-construction, its windows void of glass, tall weeds crowding its rusted entryway. Swaggart can still draw the faithful: a couple of weeks ago, 1,200 people attended a three-hour Sunday service, at which he sang, preached and pleaded for money. But Swaggart attorney and co- defendant William Treeby concedes, "We're suffering." Jeffrey Hadden, a University of Virginia scholar of televangelists, says Swaggart has stayed relatively debt-free. "Otherwise," Hadden explains, "he wouldn't have made...
...exuberantly colored and gregarious macaws, however, are the celebrity fauna of the region. During a three-hour motorized canoe ride up the Manu River, we saw 327 of the loquacious birds in a scintillating array of colors: red and green, blue and yellow, scarlet. Munn estimates that each macaw in the $ region could generate between $750 and $4,700 a year in tourist revenue -- far more over the bird's lifetime than if the animals were caught and sold...
...Lady. A Dixieland band lays down tune after tune, while a jokester on stilts tosses colorful doubloons. Waitresses with feathers jutting from their hair sashay through wood-paneled rooms, offering cocktails. As the riverboat pulls out of Fort Madison, Iowa, and steams up and down the Mississippi on a three-hour excursion into the 19th century, it is easy to get swept up in the hoopla. So easy that one can almost forget what this anachronistic cruise is really about: money and risk...
Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like 'The food looks pathetic,' " urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side...
...Thursday the Iraqis were ready to hand over the hostages to the Red Cross in Baghdad. But fierce civil warfare made all roads to the capital unsafe. So helicopters flew the group from Basra to Baghdad, dodging flares and tracer fire along the three-hour flight. In Baghdad, the Red Cross treated the famished journalists to what Suau called "our first really good meal in six days" before busing them to Jordan, where they were released. "The ironic thing," Morris recalls, "is that we went from Dhahran to Kuwait City to Basra to Baghdad to Amman, and not one roll...