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...beginning to see his point. If the bill made it through the house, glitzy roadside tourist spots would take a beating. But I pointed out that this might be a good thing...
Such pests are invading the U.S. in increasing numbers, with sometimes dire effects on agriculture, forests, public health and even people's homes. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which threatened California citrus crops in 1980-82, is thought to have arrived in a tourist's peach. Africanized "killer" bees, sighted for the first time on U.S. soil last year near Bakersfield, Calif., probably hitchhiked there from Latin America aboard a ship laden with oil- drilling equipment. Asian tiger mosquitoes, carriers of dengue, a viral infection that causes chills, headache and muscle pains, were intercepted near Houston last year. They have since...
...shows an admirable indifference to pomp and circumstance. He tootles around Cambridge in an antiquated Volkswagen Beetle, newly repainted red. When he flies, he goes tourist class (and gets a wry pleasure out of occasionally seeing some grant-enriched professor in first). He seems quite unconcerned about his salary ($128,900), which is less than he pays several of his deans. He was the first president since 1911 who chose not to live in the presidential mansion in the Yard, preferring to remain in his colonial home in Elmwood. As he walks across the Yard, he often stoops to pick...
...Remittances from Egyptians working in the Persian Gulf declined by $300 million, to $3.5 billion, this year and are expected to continue falling as the major oil producers in the region cut back production. In addition, the country has suffered a 20% decline in its $1 billion-a-year tourist trade, principally because of American fear of terrorism...
...last sight I remember on leaving Burma is 2,000 dots on the landscape as the plane rose out of Pagan, good old Burma Air. I'd only changed $15 with Tourist Burma, but I had three bags of Burmese lacquerware and a full-size traditional puppet, and I don't know where I lost all my tapes and T-shirts. Must have been those crazy Burmese--an especially tricky people...