| February 17, 2005 | - A luxury hotel was scheduled to open at Berchtesgaden.
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AP
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| August 14, 2004 | - A Pakistani man was in custody in North Carolina for videotaping skyscrapers.
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Associated Press
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| July 23, 2004 | - A homeland-security officer was in big trouble for beating up a Chinese tourist.
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Associated Press
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| April 6, 2004 | -
Tourism was up in the Middle East.
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New York Times
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| January 4, 2004 | - A new program (called the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or US-VISIT) was launched to photograph and fingerprint every foreigner who needs a visa to enter the United States. "The system," said one expert, "seems to presume that most terrorists are fools."
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NY Daily News
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| January 2, 2004 | -
Police in São Paolo, Brazil, began fingerprinting and photographing American tourists to comply with a judge's order that Americans be treated like Brazilians who enter the U.S.
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Guardian
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| December 2, 2003 | - The First Lady was thinking of taking a trip to Afghanistan — "I hope I'll have a chance in the spring," she said.
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New York Times
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| January 30, 2001 | - After a tanker ran aground, some 240,000 gallons of diesel fuel was spreading through the Galápagos Islands, poisoning the once pristine home of the flightless cormorant, the miniature Galápagos penguin, the waved albatross, and the masked booby. The tanker had been carrying fuel for tourist cruises. Fishermen were trying to skim fuel off the surface of the ocean with buckets.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Mount Fuji was rumbling; Japanese officials were reluctant to draw up an evacuation map of the area for fear of hurting the tourist
trade.
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| October 24, 2000 | -
Russian
space experts said that it was time to bring down the Mir space station before it crashed into a populated area; a spokesman for MirCorp, an Amsterdam company that plans to send tourists and game-show contestants to the station, said that Mir was just fine.
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| July 25, 2000 | - A twenty-five pound stucco ornament measuring four by six feet fell fourteen stories and cracked the skull of a tourist walking with his family in midtown Manhattan; the tourist, who was expected to live, was attending a six-day religious conference called “Changing Your World.”
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