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There's a strange blend of pride and embarrassment in being descended from the Vikings. As a tourist in Britain, one is reminded of the Norsemen's poor reputation when a guide says, "This church was built in A.D. 750 and sacked by the Danes in the year 800." Some pride can be felt, however, in the fact that the Scandinavian countries have been nonaggressive for the past two centuries. ERIK A. THOMSEN Armonk...
...especially sweet is that as of this month, one has a supersize, super-hyped gallery of sufficient wattage to house one's work: the former Bankside power station, which for almost 20 years provided electricity for London, and will for the foreseeable future provide heat for its art and tourist scene. The Tate Modern, as the new gallery is known, is the brainchild of Nicholas Serota, director of Britain's venerable Tate galleries. And it's the adopted child and most high-profile work to date of the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron...
...Philippines government says the tourist hostages held on one of its southern islands are safe, but the ill-starred travelers could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. On Tuesday, a spokesman for the Islamic separatist group holding the hostages vowed to decapitate two of the tourists - seized a week ago at an exclusive diving resort off Malaysia - unless the Philippines army withdraws troops surrounding the area where they're being held. But the Philippines government says retreat is out of the question. Besides having to cope with being held hostage by a fanatical organization fighting to stave off extinction...
...abuse and fighting. Four-fifths of them are in the U.S. illegally, but deportation is no big worry in the Colorado resort country, where unemployment has been running under 2%. Here, Latinos hold about half of the low-wage jobs--dishwashers, chambermaids and gardeners--that are essential to the tourist economy but that few U.S. citizens will take...
...Play tourist. Trade your pride for a camera. Go on a Ducktour, head to the top of the Pru, see the U.S.S. Constitution. Just don’t tell anyone you go to Harvard...