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Part of the fun of vacationing on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is to see the looks you get from folks back home. Many Americans recall the long-running controversy over U.S. Navy war games held on Vieques. They picture the place as a bomb-scarred moonscape, its waters poisoned with depleted-uranium shells. And that's exactly the image that some visitors would like to perpetuate--keeping to themselves the secrets of the island's miles of pristine beaches, brilliant coral reefs and unique glow-in-the-dark waters...
...truth is, the Navy bombed only about 1 sq. mi. on the eastern end of Vieques, even as the military presence blocked the island's hidden coves and forested mountains from commercial development. Since the Navy pulled out of Vieques on may 1, its protective role has been assumed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And word of the last Eden in the Caribbean has been rippling up from backpackers to more luxury-minded travelers...
...sure, admiring tourists have been journeying there since Christopher Columbus, who in 1493, sailed past the 10-mile-by-5-mile gem and dubbed it Graciosa, Spanish for "graceful." (Vieques is an old Indian word for small island.) Lately, conference planners have been smitten by the place and have scheduled executive retreats at the Martineau Bay Wyndham resort...
...Berlin's problems can be traced back to the subsidies - amounting to half the total budget in West Berlin - the city once received for its businesses, schools and culture. As a capitalist island behind the Iron Curtain, it was seen as a special case, deserving of special support. Now all that has changed. After the East German government was swept away in 1990, the subsidies were phased out. It became too expensive for companies to run factories there. "Berlin's citizens were very spoiled in the time of the divided country," says Sarrazin. The massive job losses that followed reunification...
...terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines.'" His stinging 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia brought him vilification from the left. The fearful Orwell borrowed a revolver from Hemingway. He and Eileen took a house on a remote Scottish island, raised goats and chickens, and adopted an infant boy they named Richard, after Orwell's father. Despite continuing infidelities, Orwell remained a devoted dad and husband. He was not, however, a healthy one, afflicted regularly with bronchitis and pneumonia. Eileen had her problems as well. In 1945, while Orwell was away...