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...milking the harbor as a tax cow, it missed what was happening elsewhere in the world. As shipping moved from downtown wharves to purpose-built container ports, old cities discovered that their weedy waterfronts could be reworked into the sort of environments that would attract?and retain?both tourist dollars and the creative minds that give a place fizz. From Boston to Bilbao, from Singapore to Sydney?even, for heaven's sake, in Liverpool, the ultimate rusted-up port?city planners have remade harbors into lively, people-friendly places full of restaurants, design studios and cultural attractions. "Waterfronts...
Harris said that the new stop across from Holyoke Center will only be used by the Harvard and Longwood Medical Area shuttles. He said it had not yet been decided where the tourist buses that currently use that space will...
...have a policy aimed at drawing American tourists. We don't give them visas easily." HOSSEIN MARACHI, Iran's vice president for tourism, explaining why U.S. travelers won't be targeted in a forthcoming international advertising campaign to improve Iran's neglected tourist industry...
...Rizal says that although chances of a major eruption are slight, scientists are monitoring seismic activity and gas emissions to avoid another devastating surprise like the tsunami: "We already have an early-warning system in place." Official warnings don't cut much ice with Euis Halimah, who runs a tourist stall on the rim of Tangkuban Parahu's sulfurous crater. "I can't just stop work," she says. "I have to feed my kids." Anyway, Euis would rather put her faith in Mother Nature's early-warning system: "If I see the birds leaving, then...
...wages home, his wife looks at his disheveled state and decides he has robbed someone for the money. A similar outcome awaits the hero of A Horse and Two Goats. An old man, who daily pastures the two scraggly remnants of a once expansive flock, is accosted by a tourist from the U.S. The American wants to buy the stone horse on whose pedestal the Indian sits. The Indian wants to sell his goats. One speaks only English, the other, except for the phrase "Yes, no," only Tamil. After much "mutual mystification," a deal is struck. The shepherd returns...