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After releasing Riverdogs in 1982, Moss left behind the lure of the river and went on to produce a number of non-fiction films, including Africa Revisited and The Tourist, which was awarded Best Documentary at the Sinking Creek Film Festival...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VES Lecturer’s Film Screens at Sundance | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...fair city. Here in New York, tolerance is not just a catchphrase - we welcome the expense account dollars of any political group. Especially when the city budget is looking at a $6 billion shortfall. As our billionaire mayor might say, "Desperate times call for desperate pillaging of tourist wallets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome, GOP! Hand Over Your Wallets | 1/7/2003 | See Source »

Even if the situation seems less than desirable, perhaps it is inevitable. The land is owned by Cambridge Savings Bank, and economics dictates that prime real estate commands sky-high rent. Alpha-Omega representative Amit Handa listed Harvard Square as one of Boston’s top three tourist destinations, along with Quincy Market and Newbury Street. Combine that with the concentrated wealth of Cambridge, and the Harvard Square location reaches a comfortable target audience...

Author: By Erin M. Kane, | Title: Goodbye, Harvard Square Culture | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...remains of demolished Beijing neighborhoods. Xu Bing's delightful Guangdong Wild Zebra Herd features four donkeys, alive if bedraggled, chewing grass outside the museum; the artist painted them to look like zebras after reading a story about inventive Chinese villagers who did the same in hopes of drawing tourist money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Art Scene: the Naked Truth | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...Less traveled is the northeastern loop, where the nascent tourist industry could take "Ho Chi Minh slept here" as its motto. Cao Bang province near the Chinese border is where the founder of independent Vietnam and his Viet Minh guerrillas hid from the French colonial army in the 1940s. The provincial government has turned the village of Pac Bo, said to be the site of the exact cave where Uncle Ho hid for four long years, into a communist-themed tourist attraction, complete with signs pointing out Karl Marx Mountain and Lenin Stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Old Buffalo' Charges On | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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