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...billion Total tourism revenue Beijing is estimated to have lost through May because of fears in the city over SARS...
...nation mind their own business in the oceans' depths, their human supporters are hailing the International Whaling Commission's shift toward a solidly conservationist agenda. At a Berlin conference last week, the IWC - once a bastion of an industry now worth only about $50 million (compared to whale-related tourism's estimated $1.5 billion) - agreed for the first time to establish a conservation committee. Its task: to advise the IWC on potential threats to marine mammals from pollution, sonar gear, ships, global warming - even whale watching itself. Environmentalists see it as a landmark step. "They're moving...
...here in the district of Umphang on a twofold mission: to understand the dark past of one of Thailand's top tourism destinations, and to seek some closure for an ailing man. That destination is the World Heritage-demarcated Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary and the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, which comprise an area of surpassing beauty and, until recently, myriad dangers. And that ailing man, Dr. Boonma Kanthakat, is my 72-year-old father-in-law, who is terminally ill with lung cancer...
...hectare clearing in the Grosseto province has so far come up empty, the Enel team is confident from the geological findings that they are about to hit pay dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany is growing because the tourism industry is booming, and property owners have begun to organize not-in-my-backyard campaigns to prevent anything spoiling the idyllic landscape. And rising real estate prices crimp on Enel's effort to expand, too. This "clean" energy source, in truth, falls short of immaculate. The old, large cooling towers, which...
...through which Kashmiris can easily pass to meet their relatives on the other side?once it is confident that Pakistan has bottled up the militants. Kashmiris (aside from some hard-line Kashmiri politicians) will settle for a peace dividend that reunites them and restores the calm that can bring tourism, investment and prosperity. For the subcontinent, self-interest may yet prove to be in everyone's interests...