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...outskirts of Paris, is playing host to a growing number of illegal immigrants demanding work and residency papers. Since the movement began in mid-August, the numbers of sans-papiers (those without papers) occupying the church has grown to around 2,000, raising concern for this popular tourist destination. "I am not sure that we can continue to manage the movement for much longer," said Bernard Berger, the priest of St. Denis. With one eye on his commitment to curb illegal immigration in France, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated that each case will be dealt with in a humane...
...most lethal of Europe's recent disasters, however, was unrelated to the storms that so devastated Central Europe. Tourist settlements near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...default--he is a foreigner everywhere he goes--and it's a privilege to look through his outsider's X-ray eyes at Mobutu's Zaire, or at a would-be revolutionary in Guyana, or at a holy man in Bombay, and see what is normally invisible to the tourist...
...products." In the global tourism industry, "cultures and societies become commodities to be consumed by an external audience." Ecotourists create "a huge economic, environmental and social impact merely by arriving in a developing country," Duffy points out. In their "self-indulgence," she adds, they are little different from conventional tourists; they too are "powerless to minimize the impact they have" on a country and "given the chance, they would not anyway." It is in these arguments that Duffy blossoms. Paradigms and impact spirals and political color charts give way to emotional venting against ecotourists who, "at an individual level, cannot...
Last week Prague prepared for war. As sirens wailed, volunteers built sandbag barricades and rescue workers went door-to-door evacuating residents and tourists. Museum curators hurried to secure paintings, rare manuscripts and other precious art objects, while appeals for donations of blood, food and clothing were broadcast over radio and television. Military rescue vehicles took up positions throughout the city. The residents of Prague were at war with the elements, as a week of heavy rains swelled the Vltava River to 35 times its average flow, swamping the metro system, collapsing apartment buildings, engulfing roads and bridges and displacing...