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...European guide is telling: Let's Go's reputation for accuracy and usefulness are rooted in trips to "developed nations." Lonely Planet has put a lock on the more out-of-the-way destinations for American tourists. "We are the clear leader in Africa, New Zealand and South Pacific destinations," he declares. "We still pretty much rule in Southeast Asia," Kettunen says. In the travel book biz, Let's Go's push to expand its coverage has been duly noted, but Schubert says Let's Go's Asia and Middle East editions clearly lag behind the series' more established guidebooks...
...abandoned the band which first make her name in the industry, having recently come out with another hit album just last summer. While this bodes well for the future of riot grrl-ness, her original fans fear that Love has wandered (and stripped through) the world from New Zealand to Oregon and come home to Hollywood to roost...
...their shortwave radio to monitor the first Y2K rollover in Kiribati. Since 1997 the Eckharts have been stockpiling food, conducting surprise drills, practicing firearm skills, converting savings into gold coins and studying rudimentary dentistry and field medicine. "So far, it's just a minor power outage in New Zealand," Diane reports, before uttering a sentence few have ever delivered. "But we've heard nothing about Guam; it's kind of disturbing...
After a dispute sillier than states competing to hold the first election primary, the Republic of Kiribati beat out Tonga and New Zealand's Chatham Islands for the media's anointment of birthplace of the third millennium. To jump in front of the Chatham Islands by 15 minutes, Tonga sneakily used daylight savings time, while Kiribati had the international dateline moved in 1995 so its snazzily named if unfortunately uninhabited Millennium Island would be first. Kiribati's Micronesian dancers, shipped in from Tawara, whupped it up before the world's cameras for six minutes and then prepped for the next...
...Saharan Africa 4,000,000 South & Southeast Asia 1,200,000 East Asia & Pacific 200,000 Latin America 160,000 Eastern Europe & Central Asia 80,000 Caribbean 45,000 North America 44,000 Western Europe 30,000 North Africa & Middle East 19,000 Australia & New Zealand 600 Total 5.8 million...