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Jessie Alderson says Aboriginal people welcome tourism: "We like tourists coming here because they bring a lot of money into the park." But Jeffrey Lee, a traditional owner from the Djok clan, says, "We are still really sad about the death of that German tourist and we want to make sure people are safe." Isabel von Jordan was killed by a crocodile in a Kakadu billabong in 2002; her group's tour guide had told them they could ignore warning signs. "If that attack" - the first fatal one in the park in 15 years - "hadn't happened, we'd still...
...fast can we get there?” you might as well not go at all. Travelers—the real ones—don’t know or care where they’re going, so long as they’re going. Tourists are travelers with a script. Sights to see, places to go, items to check off a cultural to-do list: The tourist has to accomplish these things as quickly as possible. Tourists are annoyed by discomfort and terrified by uncertainty. They carry Let’s Go guidebooks. A real traveler doesn?...
...Harvard for some of its ‘cheesy’ rituals, such as rubbing John Harvard’s foot for good luck,” he said. “This in particular is such a peculiar ritual, and one that strikes me as a tourist practice that was somewhat co-opted by the Harvard community...
...probably stop dead in his tracks before one of Liu Xiao Xian's startling Lamda prints. For Liu's Home series, the Beijing-born, Sydney-based artist has Photoshopped Chinese family portraits before painted backcloths of places like the Summer Palace and Tiananmen Tower, together with larger backdrops of tourist sites such as Buckingham Palace and Sydney Harbour. With these digital dioramas of hope and home, Liu suggests photography's infinite possibilities, not its death. Here Hockney's worst nightmare is Adelaide's delight...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize...