Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People are adept at overcoming physical limitations of travel," he said. But he added that the dangers of nationalism and the expense of communication could be hindrances...
...economic dream is post-capitalism -- a market economy plus civic responsibility, and a safety net plus spiritual contentedness. But what salvation will the free market bring to our elderly neighbor in Moscow, whose annual pension now equals a few dollars? What is freedom to travel if the lifting of price controls (as planned for the new year) raises the cost of a ticket to New York to more than twice Gorbachev's annual retirement pension...
...early 1987, according to his longtime assistant Woods, Turner felt so run-down that some doctors thought he had contracted the Epstein-Barr virus; after numerous tests they determined instead that his lack of energy was a kind of altitude sickness from the frequent takeoffs and landings of his travel schedule...
...Lourdes, the biggest of France's 937 pilgrimage shrines, annual attendance in the past two years has jumped 10%, to 5.5 million. Many new visitors are East Europeans, now free to express their beliefs and to travel. Despite the inevitable attraction of Lourdes for the ill and aged, one-tenth of the faithful these days are 25 or younger. "We also have new kinds of pilgrimages," reports Loic Bondu, a spokesman at the site. "They dance, they ) sing, they praise out loud. They're more exuberant...
...boom at such long-established sites is almost overshadowed by the cult of the Virgin that has developed through new reports of her personal appearances, most spectacularly at Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. Before Yugoslavia's civil war erupted and travel became much more difficult last September, more than 10 million pilgrims had flocked to the mountain village since the apparitions began in 1981. Six young peasants there claim that the Virgin has been imparting messages each evening for 10 years. Hundreds of ailments have been reported cured during visits to the region where the visitations take place. None of them have been...