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Water, water everywhere. Water on the moon, water on Europa. Twenty years and a few big drills, and the cold grey moon will be dotted with lake houses and tourist traps, kind of a Catskills for the new millenium. With the International Space Station grounded by delays and budget overruns, we'll certainly need a place to live...
Over the years, The Littlest Pub has become quite popular with locals and tourists alike, and icons of Irish culture such as Mary Black have been known to hold private parties there. "If I got a dollar for every time someone passed by and photographed the bar, I'd be retired by now," says Sarah, the bartender. She has worked at The Littlest Pub for nearly seven years and knows a large number of the patrons by name despite the bar's flourishing tourist trade...
...Thomas J. Livelli '99, a Crimson Key guide, asserts that "The facts that you are supposed to deliver aren't fictional. How many facts do I make fictional might be another issue." What difference, though, does it really make? How much of the information makes an impression on the tourist's mind...
...right, an honest mistake, but surely an experienced tourist like Beverly Sojehn of New York City would have paid more attention to her Key tour guide, "The three lies are that it is not really John Harvard, he wasn't the founder and it was actually founded in 1763," Sojehn said when asked...
...Absent Evidence. No physical evidence links Cousin to the crime--no fibers, no blood, no weapon, nothing. Prosecutors say he became a suspect when he was identified by Babin in a "photo lineup." A tourist and a restaurant worker were said to have made, as prosecutors put it, tentative identifications. "A tentative identification is the equivalent of a partial pregnancy," says Stafford-Smith. "There is no such thing." Stafford-Smith charges that Babin and the other "tentative" witnesses were coached by detectives to identify Cousin in the photo lineup...