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Whenever you go, be sure to bring along a pair of sturdy sneakers or shoes, a warm jacket, rain gear and plenty of film. Remember that you need a visa to enter China. And book ahead: during the peak season, up to 30,000 tourists visit the mountains, and although the area is very large, beds do get scarce. As they have for thousands of years, crowds arise before dawn and head toward the peaks to await that magical moment when the sun rises from the sea of clouds and bathes the mountains in the radiant morning light. Huang Shan...
Clinton, one of 40 million Americans who claim some Irish heritage, was strongly pro-Irish during his 1992 presidential campaign. He called for a special U.S. envoy then, but after winning he backed down under pressure from London. During his first year in office Clinton twice turned down visa requests by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to visit the U.S., because he refused to renounce violence as a means of ending British rule in the North. In January 1994, Adams applied again. He still refused to rule out violence, but, hoping that he would, and over the protests...
...infuriated British government, led then by John Major, protested the visa, calling it a naive reward for an unrepentant terrorist. Last month, though, as Adams ate a St. Patrick's Day lunch at the British embassy in Washington with Trimble, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam was saying that "the Americans and President Clinton have been of incalculable help all along the way." What prompted the turnaround...
SEARCH AND CHARGE Apparently it's not enough for the folks at Yahoo! that they've already won the Web search-engine wars. A few weeks ago, they began offering Yahoo! Visa cards, and last week they joined forces with MCI to launch a Yahoo! Internet-access service, putting them squarely in competition with giant America Online...
...ACLU return my phone calls? I run to the mailbox every day hoping that a letter will arrive offering me a fantastic paid internship with all kinds of perks. Instead, I pull out yellow envelopes from Harvard Telephone Services and Citibank Visa which add to my ever-growing pile of debt. I wait by the phone hoping for an intern coordinator to call asking me for an interview. My phone had two messages the last time that I checked--one from my mother and the other from my bank asking me to pay a delinquent bill...