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...Madrid train attack prompted the new Spanish government to pledge to withdraw its troops from Iraq. South Korea has beefed up security on its trains, planes and other public transport, while Thailand has done the same at Bangkok airport, foreign embassies and so-called soft targets such as the tourist resorts in Pattaya and Phuket...
...Dubai's tourist boom is part of a bold plan to transform the tiny city-state (part of the United Arab Emirates) into a Middle Eastern Singapore?that is, an ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only...
They are unlikely tourist attractions: South Africa 's urban townships are congested shantytowns, home to millions - up to a third of the country's black population. It was in the townships that the struggle against apartheid was at its most intense, but until recently few white South Africans, and fewer tourists, had actually been to Soweto or any of the other impoverished areas that huddle around South Africa 's largest cities. These days, though, a township tour is practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa. Soweto, a few miles from Johannesburg, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings...
...someone asks one what the meaning of life is, one will pass out on Quincy Street. Although, on second thought, there is doubt that day will ever come. As much as one now knows the perils of studying at one of this country’s foremost tourist attractions, one still doesn’t think that anyone expects these hallowed halls to be churning out the answer to the secret of life. Until that happens, one’s understanding of the phrase inscribed on Dexter Gate (“Enter to grow in wisdom/Depart to better serve...
...with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his tiny country ... The one paved road in Haiti ... is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from...