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...describe what is happening." From the border with China in the north to the rice mills of the Mekong Delta in the south, the California-size country is humming with activity. Hong Kong investors have been allowed to open a casino near Haiphong, and Westerners are bidding to develop tourist sites along the scenic coast between Danang and Nha Trang. Hanoi, long a city of bicycles and moldy old colonial edifices, is now rich in motorcycles and office buildings. In Ho Chi Minh City, as Saigon is now called, the April 30 parade marking the end of the war will...
Whether it's the Rockettes or the other Broadway and off-Broadway shows that Vegas imports (Guys and Dolls, Starlight Express, Forever Plaid, Beehive), the target audience is the middle-aged tourist with a fat wallet in need of slimming. And Vegas has hit the bull's-eye. In 1994 the flood of tourists swelled 20%, to 28.2 million visits, and entertainment revenues soared almost 16%, to $230 million...
...multiculturalists who despise Western civilization as the archenemy of nature and the world's primary despoiler of pristine wilds. "Even the landscapes that we suppose to be most free of our culture," Schama writes, "may turn out, on closer inspection, to be its product." Yosemite is surely overtrekked and tourist befouled, but would we prefer, he asks, that it had never been mapped and emparked? As he notes, "The wilderness, after all, does not locate itself, does not name itself...
...have to confess that over spring break I purchased a cheesy tourist t-shirt in the Cayman Islands. It depicts a glaring imitation of a beer bottle label in vivid yellow, green and red. Robert J. Levy '95 informs me that the next step is to "cut off the sleeves and have a buff tank-top for summer." Is this the next wave...
...folks who live nearby are generally aware of the hospital's function-at times perhaps overly so. Recently locals brought in an elderly woman who, hysterical and speaking nothing but Greek, was assumed to be stricken with Jerusalem Syndrome. In fact, she was a tourist who had simply taken the wrong bus and wound up in an unfamiliar neighborhood-upset, yes, but in no immediate danger of assuming divinity...