Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awaits the lifting of the U.S. embargo more eagerly than Cuban scientists, who struggle to obtain basic supplies--chemical reagents, for instance--that in the U.S. are but a phone call away, and whose incomes are starting to trail behind those of service workers buoyed by Cuba's rising tourist trade. CIGB has reportedly started paying its scientists partly in dollars to keep them from leaving the field. "I love my research," confides a hardworking scientist. "But if I have to drive a taxi to support my family, I will...
...just happened to be walking by and I asked if they were going to sing," said Carlos Rengifo, a self- described frequent tourist from Caracas, Venezuela...
...grown accustomed to the state's extremes--of topography, of climate, of behavior--and even somewhat proud of them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention the gun freaks, vegans and channelers...
...tourist guides make little mention of it, but no island is free from the new influence of the drug cartels. They stash cocaine on the U.S. Virgin Islands, and their boats lurk in the waters off St. Eustatius and Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian...
...just two years ago. The number of drugstores, meanwhile, has tripled over the past five years, from 10 to 30. Lately, Mexican dentists and optometrists have added their own discount services as well. "It's busier than ever," says Maria Dolores, head of a local tourist agency. "People find out that the dentists are good and the drugs are the same ones as in the U.S., so they tell their friends...