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...National Park System manages bout 83 million acres. Not all of that land is worth as much as Yellowstone, but combining oil drilling, mining, logging, and tourism revenue, it would be conservative to say that the sale of all that land could cover 20% of the costs of the new stimulus package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the U.S. Sell Assets As the British Government Did? | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...community, which now numbers about 130,000, have been rising constantly (the rate among 19-to-25-year-olds is 99%). Some go to university but then find themselves competing with the more numerous Indian graduates. Many end up, at best, working in beauty parlors, restaurants and tourism-related industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibetan Exiles: A Generation in Peril | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...relatively high levels of literacy and were more likely to have been educated in government schools than in madrasahs. Religion wasn't necessarily the only reason they turned to jihad. A Pakistani who enrolled in a training camp in Kunar province, Afghanistan, told TIME that he went for "tourism and adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Mumbai Terrorist | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...graduation? Would any of them, say, risk a jump into the freezing Charles River? For one Kirkland House senior, the answer is an emphatic yes. Radford “Rad” Murphy ’09 sported nothing but swim trunks in his minute-long video entry for Tourism Queensland’s “The Best Job in the World” competition. Video entries are rated by the public on the job’s Web site, and the winner earns the crown title of “Island Caretaker” of Hamilton Island along...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Cambridge to Queensland: One Harvardian’s Quest for “The Best Job” | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...declare the city safe for U.S. travel, a designation that opened the floodgates to cruise ships. In the past five years, foreign visitors to Colombia have more than doubled, from 1 million to 2.6 million a year. From 2006 to 2007 alone, the country saw a 13.2% increase in tourism, which is now Colombia's third largest industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loving My Time in Cartagena | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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