Word: travel
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Well, if you're willing to travel to Dorchester, you've got a chance...
Another embattled Administration official may soon be facing an independent-counsel investigation. This time it's Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, who's accused of accepting travel and gifts from Tyson Foods Inc, the largest U.S. poultry processor and a firm with close ties to Clinton. Within two weeks, the Washington Post reports, Attorney Janet Reno will move on plans to request an independent counsel, who may widen the probe to include top USDA aides. Meanwhile, White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers reports the president has "absolute confidence" in Espy, who denies any wrongdoing...
...families like the Barrys who are in need of an alternative, the answer may lie in one of entertainment's hottest new concepts: pint-size suburban parks that don't require a plane ride or two days of travel and don't take a $300 chomp out of Mom and Dad's paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend...
...they do. As if to underscore that point, hundreds of Palestinians rioted on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel last week in a skirmish between Israeli soldiers and P.L.O. policemen that left two Palestinians dead. The reason for the disturbance: the Palestinians, 20,000 of whom travel to Israel daily for work, were fed up with long lines at the checkpoint into Israel and with the Israeli quotas that keep thousands of them unemployed in job-poor Gaza...
...city"s black ghettos, the unspeakable wealth of Beverly Hills. As a writer seeking to capture the spirit of place, Peter Theroux is a kinder, gentler clone of his older brother Paul (The Happy Isles of Oceania, Riding the Iron Rooster.) . For all their sparkle, the latter's travel books are suffused with a sour misanthropy : the natives are usually too noisy or too smelly or otherwise lacking in the finer human attributes...