Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first thing I thought was 'Duck!'" Brown says more shots were fired in a matter of seconds. "It was like a running gunfight." He saw the flash of a gun, then saw Chestnut on the ground bleeding heavily. "Officer down!" someone shouted. Angela Dickerson, a 24-year-old tourist from Virginia, was wounded in the face and shoulder. One man threw his wife to the ground and lay on top of her. Families were separated in the melee as they raced to find someplace to hide. Jered Addotta from Rockford, Ill., 14, was in the Crypt when the firing began...
Israel has a particularly proud culture, its foreignness escaping all but the most trite and incomplete description by this American tourist. Yet where language and culture has such a long history, why has the American version invaded with such force...
...Tourist-in-chief Bill Clinton hit five Chinese cities in nine days and obviously had a wonderful time. He put in a bit of work, debating issues with President Jiang Zemin, delivering a major speech, engaging in wonky chatfests with "ordinary" Chinese citizens, and he seemed to enjoy those too. Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers. It was a lot more...
...then. How on earth did he do it without a way to keep the home fires burning? "In essence," said biologist Steve Weiner, lead author of the study, "we spoil the story." Look on the bright side -- scientists now have a whole new missing link to ponder. The Zhoudoudian tourist industry is unlikely to see it that way, however...
Another favorite tourist spot is Chinatown (T: Orange Line to Chinatown). A good time to visit the area is on a bright, i.e. safe, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the numerous Chinese restaurants, and avoid much of the crime that has plagued the area in the past...