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...flap obscured a deeper debate over Aspen's future. As the ski resort has become a favored hangout for Hollywood stars and wealthy businessmen, the price of real estate has soared. Last year the average house sold for $1.1 million. In addition to rejecting the fur-sale ban, voters approved construction of a 292-room hotel and a widened highway into town. Last week's voting was a showdown between those seeking to slow development and those who want to accelerate it. The accelerators...
...drug cartels against which Colombia has been waging an all-out war promised that they would not make trouble, the government is taking no risks. Hundreds of Colombian and U.S. undercover agents disguised as beach vendors, taxi drivers, bellboys and happy-go-lucky tourists are prowling the Caribbean resort city of Cartagena, where George Bush and the leaders of the three South American nations that are the source of virtually all the world's cocaine will hold their five-hour meeting. An additional 5,000 troops have set up pedestrian checkpoints and roadblocks. Nearby, frogmen are scouring waters for submerged...
Artists have favorite tropes, metaphors to which they resort semiconsciously over and over again. Rowlandson's chief one was the opposition between youth and age, freshness and decay, virility and impotence. He was not in any real sense a political artist -- unlike his colleague James Gillray. Beneath Rowlandson's comedy there was a clawing, nagging fear of falling apart. As well there should have been, the censorious might add: he was a rake, too fond of cards, women and the bottle for his own good. And his work is full of Dreadful Elders, gouty, poxed, many-chinned, snouted, toothless, cunning...
From co-ed volleyball matches to raucous barroom contests, the Padre resort complex swells each spring with high school and college students eager to put the winter doldrums behind them and let loose...
There are four or five resort hotels, most of which are newly built, along the beach north of Kona. They cater specifically to the tourist who wants luxury, scenery, Hawaiian culture--essentially nothing that resembles city life...