Word: tourists
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...from traditional Senegalese rock n' roll, called mbalax, to Deep South blues, replete with throaty intonations in the style of B.B. King. Goree is an island off the coast of Dakar where slaves were kept before being shipped off to the New World. Nowadays it survives as a popular tourist attraction, particularly for African-Americans looking to retrace their heritage. A contrarian by nature, Kane makes the point that the blues originated in west Africa before crossing the Middle Passage to America...
...tourist traveling on dilapidated trains to and from London would quickly discover, Britain's domestic railway system has been in a state of slow decline ever since the sun set on the British empire after World War II. But after being maligned for years as overpriced, cramped and uncomfortable, rail travel in Britain is about to make a comeback - in the glorious shape of London's revamped St. Pancras station...
...Grand Central Station boasts unnerving parallels: another station on the verge of closure, an area in decline before regeneration," explained Ruse. "Now [it's] the second most visited tourist attraction in New York - we can get the same here...
...terrorist who is intent on arming rebels against a friendly government. And to the people of Laos? The day I left Vientiane, the Times finally did run an item on the Hmong. It was a small ad announcing a sale of Hmong handicrafts at a government-run tourist shop...
...many parts of the world, conservationists are letting the natural beauty and allure of the reefs - which generate billions in tourist dollars every year - do the talking for them. In one area of the Philippines, for instance, local leaders asked fishermen who had been making a living by blast-fishing, which destroys reefs, to trade in their trawlers for dive boats. They did, the fish came back to the reefs, the local economy flourished and everyone - tourists, residents, and coral ecologists alike - was happy. In cases like these, one hand washes the other, says NOAA's Eakin. "If healthy coral...