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...Harvard Square has become a really tourist kind of environment. I think it's a real danger," Williamson said, noting the trolleys full of tourists who come to gawk at the Square and its inhabitants. "We're being turned into participants in a fishbowl experience...
...your first trip into Boston, don't be afraid to play tourist. The first thing tourists hit--especially those who are also history buffs--is the Freedom Trail...
Enter the pillared Quincy Market building and your nose will be assaulted by a million appetizing odors-fresh lobster, pot pies, egg rolls, empanadas, pizza, fudge brownies and more. The food court houses more that 20 stalls from which even the most finicky tourist can choose a tasty meal...
...anyone begun to ask how many of Thailand's 2 million prostitutes are minors; how many have been sold by parents or husbands as indentured servants to brothel owners; and how many have been kidnapped from villages in Burma, Laos and southern China to service the new breed of tourist. A 1991 conference of Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry is a huge market with its own momentum," says Wassyla...
...Aviv the number of brothels has skyrocketed in five years from 30 to 150 -- largely because of an influx of Russians into Israel. Though some are new immigrants driven to the trade by financial troubles, most are temporary visitors who enter the country on tourist visas. Scores of ads for "entertainment services," many boasting "hot new Russians," riddle the Israeli papers. Bars in major Chinese cities now offer blond, blue-eyed Russian "hostesses," while in Tokyo, Russian girls are the latest addition to the menu in fancy "hostess" bars. In Modena, Italy, last fall, police rounded up more than...