Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general, avoid any other activities listed on the printed schedule that the admissions office sent you. Predictably, the most interesting things to see and do here have been left off it. Herewith, a few items on my unofficial list of Harvard tourist sites...
...rebels and terrified civilians commandeered Toyotas, donkey carts, bicycles and buses to flee the battle zone and the retribution of Iraqi troops. Columns of people and vehicles, sometimes 50 miles long, snaked into the hills. Families packed themselves into the scoops of bulldozers. Tractors dragged trailers overloaded with passengers. Tourist buses wheezed desperately up the mountain roads. Near the Turkish border, a tall, eagle-faced man strapped 14 members of his family -- including seven children, his wife and his grandmother -- and innumerable pots, kettles, basins and chicken coops to a huge John Deere tractor. As he helped extract...
...there. Back in World War II, the town did house 3,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The POWs are still remembered for the fancy European-style banquets they gave, and for the 50-ft.-wide Nativity scene carved out of concrete, which today is Algona's sole tourist attraction...
Some cities have started looking for their tourist dollars closer to home. "The Persian Gulf war gave rise to a resurgence of patriotism in the U.S. that in the long run may translate to more people staying Stateside for their vacations this year," says Merrett Stierheim, president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. In mid-March his bureau unveiled the first in a series of advertisements for a $2 million year-long campaign designed to show off the city's colorful Caribbean culture. In one spot, hometown singer Gloria Estefan coos to her parrot, "We just love coming...
...Administration officials are bracing themselves for Fidel Castro's next "dirty trick": the lifting of age restrictions on travel abroad. Currently, only older Cubans (men over 45, women over 40) are allowed to visit relatives in the U.S. The State Department knows it will be flooded with ; requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because...