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...likelihood these items, like many African antiquities on the market today, are fake. Christopher Steiner, a professor at Connecticut College and the author of African Art in Transit, estimates that "90% of what's coming into the U.S. is replicas or tourist art that's being made to look old." The problem is so widespread that even Bryna Freyer, the Smithsonian's African-art curator, can't always spot a phony. "I'm not sure I'd know an authentic Bura piece from a fake," says Freyer, referring to 2nd century artifacts from Niger, "because there simply aren...
...this, too, Nakata led the way. He made tiny Perugia a household name in Japan, his name selling thousands of Tshirts and TV rights to the club's games. He also became the town's main tourist draw. "Japanese fans were crawling all over the place," says Perugia spokesman Paolo Meattelli. Even before he has kicked a ball in Parma's blue-and-yellow colors, Nakata has made a good start for the club: on the day he signed up, Parma inked a contract to sell 10,000 Nakata jerseys in Japan. Every Parma match will be broadcast live...
...decades they have come to Loch Ness, camera-toting tourists and scientists with high-tech submersibles, all desperate for a glimpse of the world's most famous monster. Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi says they will never find Nessie, because she's an earthquake. He claims seismic activity in the Great Glen Fault, directly under the Scottish lake, coincides with the sightings, groaning noises and water-surface disturbances attributed to Scotland's favorite beast. Tell that to the tourist bureau...
...London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED. YVONNE DIONNE, 67, one of Canada's famous captive quintuplets, "the Dionne Quints"; in Montreal. Until the age of nine, the "quints" were displayed as a tourist attraction, and were viewed by a total of 4 million visitors. DIED. JACK LEMMON, 76, esteemed actor; in Los Angeles. Lemmon is perhaps most famous for his role as straight man Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of The Odd Couple, and his Oscar-winning portrayal...
...that control group of orangutans to answer those great questions about men and monkeys that could only be answered here in the wild, crossed the Simpang-kiri river, persuading the illegal loggers to give him rides through unending kilometers of rotting stumps and splintered branches. He was just a tourist, he told them, but had they by any chance seen any neesia trees still upright? He finally hit pay dirt in August of 1999. "On our last trip in," the lanky Van Schaik recounts, "the loggers said, yes, there are a few crooked trees left that they had missed...