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...score kilometers to the west. By comparison with Bali, Lombok's white sands and mountain hikes are gloriously empty. So steep has the decline in tourism been that industry workers like Roy are back tending fields and renting rooms to refugees from East Timor. Of course, with visitor numbers down, Lombok is also very good value. But, more importantly, islanders swear they have learned their lesson. The Muslim militias blamed for much of last year's troubles also suffered in the downturn. They profess a new determination to see that everyone gets along fine. And with a new national President...
...drop in visitor arrivals has made some touts adopt a creative hard sell. On a straightforward path to the spectacular 50-m-high waterfall north of Tetebatu, Hasan Udin stops us and explains we have to take a guide. Not because we are likely to get lost or even because he has something to teach us about the surrounding forest. Try to think of it as a marriage, he says. "Sometimes you have a wife and she is no good so you have to get a new one," says Hasan, who, at 25, has just wed his fourth...
Previous efforts to track the activities of foreign students have moved slowly and have had little success. The current effort, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, is expected to receive a $43 million boost from the Bush Administration, but Feinstein believes that a moratorium is also necessary to prevent terrorists from entering the U.S. before the system is ready...
...located in the gallery’s reading area [located near the exit of the gallery],” increasing and interspersing the biographical information within the galleries would have had the beneficial effect of making the exhibit appear to be more coherant and less free-form. If the visitor had each woman’s personal history in front of them while examining the works, they could determine and discover—during viewing—the complex relationships of the various artists that the existing placards alone do not reveal...
...Seem" is the operative word in that sentence, of course, and many a visitor will tell you that Japan has mastered the art of not appearing to be worried by burying its collective head in the sand; last year alone, after all, the Nikkei index lost a quarter of its value. The maintenance of an upright, even upbeat public face is part of what has led generations of outsiders to talk of "inscrutability" (a nice word for insincerity) and to ask if smiles, in this proud and often aggressive country, are not just a way of keeping tears...