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...rets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated south of France have taken an awful toll. In northeastern Portugal, a blaze of some 7,000 hectares claimed two victims as well, and new wildfires were under...
Summer Of Fear SPAIN Officials worry that a series of three bombings, which injured 14 people, mark the launch of a summer campaign by the Basque terrorist group ETA. The first two explosions happened at tourist hotels in the Costa Blanca resorts of Alicante and Benidorm. After a phoned warning to a Basque newspaper by a man claiming to speak on behalf of ETA, police evacuated more than 100 staff and guests from the hotels. Four policemen were wounded in the Benidorm attack, while the nine injured in Alicante were mainly foreign students and their teachers at an adjacent language...
Jessica Zdeb ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Adams House. This summer she is interning at the National Museum of American History trying not to look like too much of a tourist when she gapes at the historical wonders that surround...
...participants are from Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan—Boston’s poorest communities. Where Best Buys are replaced with Rent-A-Centers, and only a confusing (and often routinely late and slow) system of buses connect their community, their Boston isn’t on any tourist map. Instead, like much of the rest of low-income America, it is a mecca for obesity...
...they don’t tell you on postcards or tourist maps that it’s also the city too busy to walk anywhere. Or at the very least, the city where everyone is so in love with their cars that they wouldn’t even consider...