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Since then, Archbold has become an institution. His face is on 11 tourist postcards and the official Philly tourist brochure, and he has performed for every President since Gerald Ford. He makes a handsome living by delivering several lectures a week to business conventions. When the city wanted to cut his funding for his free daily children's programs--just three years before Franklin's 300th birthday--Archbold knocked on some corporate and government doors and got the cash. It's hard to say no to someone willing to dress up as a Founding Father in public...
...Thailand's arrest of three Thai nationals in June and a Singaporean in May sent a chill through the country's balmy resort towns?police alleged the men were part of a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell planning to commit Bali-style bombings in the tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Although the accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there...
...girl from Seoul, South Korea encountered a multitude of problems because she only received a tourist visa from the government, despite having registered for full-time enrollment at the Summer School...
...while the people are at the two extremes of the spectrum, the businesses are strictly high-rent types. Few are seedy in the least and they prefer the splurging-tourist-or-parent demographic to the poor-student-or-otherwise-poor demographic. But Central Square has it all, for everyone, especially people-watchers like myself...
...time soon?the journalists would most likely have been questioned and, after pressure was applied by foreign embassies and rights groups, released?albeit relieved of their notebooks and film. This, however, is Laos?a country that seems on the surface to be laid-back and peaceful. On the popular tourist trail between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, charming guesthouses serve fresh baguettes and coffee and offer unrestricted Internet access. Some journalists and diplomats have in the past dubbed the country's doddering apparatchiks "merry Marxists." Yet in reality, Laos has a long history of abusing human rights and ranks among Asia...