Word: tourists
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...Nevertheless, the always hospitable Ethiopians are counting on foreigners to join their millennium party. My Ethiopian guide in the town of Bahir Dar, near the source of the Blue Nile, told me that several new hotels are being built in anticipation of a (local) year 2000 tourist influx. "I have heard that 50,000 people will come here for the millennium," he confided. But given that the best hotel currently in Bahir Dar (sister city: Cleveland, Ohio) is a state-run guesthouse whose moldy rooms and surly plumbing aspire to one-star status, it's doubtful that the new concrete...
...Brad Unger. Throw in the 6’2” junior water polo co-captain Lauren Snyder and 6’1 lacrosse freshman Kate Beers, and the result is five of the tallest athletes Harvard has to offer.While these individuals may be stared at by students and tourists alike, their size has greatly helped them achieve their goal of participating in collegiate-level athletics.“It’s helpful to be big,” Beers said. “You can see more of the field than other people.”Size...
...young French people in particular leave their country in order to find better career prospects elsewhere, one must not lose sight of two facts: tens of thousands of British people, including myself, have come to France to settle down in their retirement, and France remains the No. 1 tourist destination in Europe. In other words, the French are getting some things right. As for changing things in überconservative France, the only presidential candidate with some chance of doing it is Nicolas Sarkozy. But then again, there is always plus ça change. Dr. Karl H. Pagac, VILLENEVUE-LOUBET, FRANCE...
...Stewart does it through winning community support. For the past year, he has labored tirelessly to transform the Murad Khane slum in Kabul's 200-year-old city center into a heritage district and tourist magnet for Afghans and foreigners alike. At first, local reaction was about the same as one would expect if some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming...
...MAINTAIN MY PRETENSE AS A TOURIST, I would have been safer staying north, near the game parks and Victoria Falls. But Matabeleland is a microcosm of Zimbabwe's implosion. Thousands in the region are dying of malnutrition. Hundreds of thousands survive by trapping wild animals or bare-handed mining. When I arrived in the gold-rush town of West Nicholson, I met with a local miner in his bungalow. Several times during our 10-minute chat, he would step out for a few moments. It soon became clear why. When I emerged from his house, two plainclothes officers were waiting...