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...tourist guides make little mention of it, but no island is free from the new influence of the drug cartels. They stash cocaine on the U.S. Virgin Islands, and their boats lurk in the waters off St. Eustatius and Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian...
...just two years ago. The number of drugstores, meanwhile, has tripled over the past five years, from 10 to 30. Lately, Mexican dentists and optometrists have added their own discount services as well. "It's busier than ever," says Maria Dolores, head of a local tourist agency. "People find out that the dentists are good and the drugs are the same ones as in the U.S., so they tell their friends...
...Maya Devi temple erected by Ashoka, an Indian king who converted to Buddhism and spread the religion to East Asian nations more than two thousand years ago. Japanese Bhuddists have already announced plans for a new temple in Lumbini, and Nepal plans to turn the town into an international tourist attraction...
DIED. DUANE HANSON, 70, sculptor; of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; in Boca Raton, Florida. Hanson's popular, Pop-influenced sculptures captured humanity at its most humdrum--a gawking tourist or a burdened shopper, each life-size, dressed in real clothing and rendered with such realism that passers-by were often unaware they were in the company of art, not life...
...patch-up job over fundamental differences. No one who has ever seen the German War Memorial would think for one moment that Harvard University endorsed the cause of the Kaiser, nor would the World War II memorial to Adolph Saanwald imply an endorsement of Hitler. Even the slowest tourist has more sophistication than that, and to imply that future generations of Harvard students would be confused at the sight of such a memorial to the Confederate dead and think it Harvard's endorsement of the "peculiar institution," certainly doesn't credit the future with much intelligence. The fact that other...