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...time for political jousting. But even when issues closer to home, like interest rates and Medicare, reassert themselves in coming days, says pollster Gary Morgan, the Jakarta embassy attack will reverberate through the electorate more loudly even than the Bali massacre: "Bali was an attack on a tourist center; this was an attack on Australia. Australians are going to be more concerned about terrorism than ever before." Whether voters decide this bombing, the first such attack on an Australian outpost, marks a stepping up of terrorists' focus on Australia or that it is more a consequence of turmoil in Indonesia...
...Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, a swampy archipelago in the Indian state of West Bengal, which has by way of tourist attraction the dual charms of man-eating tigers and cyclonic storms. Wading into the marshlands are Piya, an Indian-American marine biologist looking for a rare dolphin that might inhabit its waters, and Kanai, a bored rake from Delhi on the lookout for a more common sort of catch?a lonely American. Things go topsy-turvy for Kanai when Piya decides her search for the dolphin will need the expert guidance of Fokir, a silent, brooding local...
...frenzy, the thief yanked the frame downward to snap the wires that held it. Mary Vassiliou, a tourist from New Jersey who witnessed the robbery, told TIME, "It looked like he was crazy. He was banging it against the wall. Then he got it off the wall, and he was banging it on the floor." Witnesses say the same man next went after The Scream, which he ripped in the same brutal way from the partition--not even a solid wall--it was hung on. "They dragged them and twisted them and did all sorts of things," says museum director...
...thousands more on waiting lists. Those who can afford it are simply moving out, buying apartments in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, Netanya or Ashdod. El Al flights to and from Europe now regularly feature in-flight ads, in French, for property in Israel. And according to Israeli press reports, tourist trips by French Jews - some clearly exploring immigration - have skyrocketed in recent years. The exodus reflects a genuine crisis in the French psyche. The national dream - in which membership in the secular republic is always more important than ethnic and religious identity - is waking up to an increasingly atomized reality...
...calculated the cost to the ranchers for each lion on their property, including the guards' pay, the dogs, the extra fencing and the inevitable loss of some livestock: it comes to $350 a year per lion. On its property, Mugie has 10 lions, which have begun to attract tourists, as Frank hoped. If the big cats bring tourist dollars to Mugie Ranch, then both humans and lions come out ahead...