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...black metal sign serves as a makeshift tombstone, sticking out of the orange soil. But unlike many nearby graves, there are scattered rose petals over Agha-Soltan's site. As a visitor took out a camera, a man - perhaps an undercover security agent or merely an overzealous citizen - emerged and angrily shouted, "No pictures...
...Martha's Vineyard's Chamber of Commerce, remembers how former President Bill Clinton's summers on the island gave a "tremendous boost" to the local economy and helped "turn the tide" on the island's real estate market in the early 1990s. She hopes Obama will be a regular visitor "for the next seven years...
...China, where the first case of H1N1 was traced to a Mexican visitor in late April, only 2,264 cases of the flu have been reported. Still, officials in Beijing, criticized for their handling of previous viruses such as the outbreak of SARS in 2002 and 2003, are taking no chances. Chinese crews wearing masks and medical suits now walk through all international airplanes upon arrival, testing passengers' temperatures with pistol-grip thermometers. When one student from St. Mary's School in Medford, Ore., tested positive on a trip to China in mid-July, 65 fellow pupils and seven chaperones...
That’s the problem with being a visitor, a tourist essentially. Observe all you want, but you might never understand. The fuzzy earmuffs are here to stay—but you?...
With its colleges, museums and river-borne punts, Oxford offers plenty to see for the visitor - far more than can be crammed into a day trip from London. Those who want to maximize the experience can now do so in a wallet-friendly way, by booking a college room for the night. Lord Sebastian Flyte might well have sniffed at the thought of tourists tramping across quadrangles and up worn oak staircases - and his creator Evelyn Waugh undoubtedly so - but with accommodation from just $58 a night, it's an attractive prospect for travelers looking for their own little slice...