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Eighty-four-year-old South African tobacco baron Anton Rupert returned last week from a grand tour of Europe. But he didn't buy any paintings. He was collecting money, lots of it, from corporate and personal friends for what will be some of the largest tourist attractions on Earth. His organization, the Peace Parks Foundation, has brought the idea of the transborder park to southern Africa, where it has the potential to spark a socioeconomic transformation of the region...
...first one, Kgalagadi, which means Land of Thirst, was created last year by merging two parks that straddled the border of South Africa and Botswana. The combination is a 14,600-sq.-mi. wilderness area in which tourists and animals can move freely. Since the formal opening last May, tourist traffic has been projected to triple to 150,000 visitors annually. A Peace Parks Club run by the foundation offers 10-day tours of the park that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced rangers of the San tribe, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
Moreover, as a university area and popular tourist destination, Cambridge will always have a large population of drivers foreign to the city. These drivers cannot be expected to see and stop for the poorly-marked crosswalks that pedestrians assume are obvious...
...first two pages of the huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least...
...societies necessarily are. Each of its five sections corresponds to a 20-year slice of history, and tries to set forth (or at least to indicate) the dominant history, the winners' and losers' versions, of the era. It spends at least as much time and space on ephemera, from tourist brochures to labor pamphlets, as on certifiable masterpieces of art--which California has never produced in abundance anyhow...