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Unlike guide books, "Artwalks" allows tourists to view the sights without having to raise and lower their heads, Markow said. The cassettes also allow the tourist to advance at his own pace. "You can turn off the tape and stop in the middle if there's something you wnat to investigate," Markow said...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Student Markets 'Artwalks,' Guided Tour Cassette Tapes | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...project comes amid a squabble over just where the daffodils originally bloomed. While tradition places them near Wordsworth's Lake District home in northwest England, a Yorkshire tourist board insists that the immortalized flowers actually grew some 85 miles away. That argument, however, has not taken root among Lake District officials, or at the National Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: When Poetry Was in Flower | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...They were even given a quick tour late one night of the White House grounds and the standard tourist tour of the White House," Secord said, adding that North was their guide. He said the Secret Service was aware of the Iranians' presence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Says He Wasn't Home | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...improve his German vocabulary and doing research and development for a sequel to a recent article on beer commercials. When last seen, Chase was muttering a German phrase, roughly translatable as something unprintable. Jeff Wise will reside in Manila, supporting either Marcos or communist insurgency by knocking over tourist bingo games. Andrea Monfried will sojourn to Greece and promises to spray paint "Bono is God" on the Parthenon. And Mimi Sheller will slip down to Mexico to buy drugs. As usual, I'm staying here to do all the dirty work for a hopeless bunch of miscreants. Oh well. Until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Janitor's Note: | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...ORLEANS IS SINKING AT THE rate of one inch every year. The city is built over hundreds of feet of soft black mud, deposited there, over thousands of years, by the Mississippi. The mud comes from the Midwest, all the way uup to Minnesota, along with the tourist hordes who contribute their dollars and their considerable collective weight to the city's inexorable descent towards Australia. When we were there, mind you, most of the buildings were still very much visible. The locals, for their part, seemed unconcerned about the dreadful fate awaiting them in just a few brief moments...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: A Sinking Feeling | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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