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Seven stories above the sparkling waters of Hallandale, Florida and the ebb and flow of tourists?? shouts live two women with similar life stories. Both were born and raised in Poland, both lost most of their families to the Holocaust, miraculously survived, moved to Israel and then settled in America to raise their families. Both women are in their eighties and survived their dearly beloved husbands. Their children live hundreds of miles away, and though they speak with them often, they can’t help feeling mostly cut off from their families and histories. Happiness sometimes creeps...
...procession of 17 duck boats—the amphibious World War II-era vehicles familiar to Boston tourists??carried Red Sox families, players and staff through the streets from Fenway Park to downtown Boston, before descending into the Charles River to float past more fans lining the bridges and riverbanks...
...it’s important to remember that we don’t deserve airplanes. This is sort of a silly thing to say (I sure as hell didn’t ask for airplanes), but if we have any ambition of becoming travelers—not just tourists??then we should take it to heart. Airplanes are anti-travel devices. As soon as the question becomes “how fast can we get there?” you might as well not go at all. Travelers—the real ones—don?...
Such is the secret of Bosnia. I am growing extremely fond of my home for a month, Sarajevo. There are millions of interesting, positive things to say about it. But do I really want hoards of tourists??for pleasure or on do-good missions—arriving? While in general I heartily support international travel and certainly greater tourism in Bosnia would be helpful to the economy, I cannot help but want to protect this place from the brash self-centered voyeurism that tourists of all nationalities tend to carry...
...Harvard’s left foot entices all sorts of people, from international tourists in search of good luck to reveling students in search of a place to relieve themselves. Because of the latter, one is inclined to pity the former. But does anyone truly know exactly what those tourists?? poor, unsuspecting hands are touching? Is it Harvardian urine or just plain metal? Armed with state-of-the-art swabbing technology and chemistry tutor Stephen J. Haggarty, FM put on its mad-scientist hat and sought the answer to this pressing question...