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Rome Reborn

Posted on 30. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Tourists attempting to make sense of the jumble of decaying ruins in Rome once had to rely on guide books and their imagination. But this situation has changed with the creation of Rome Reborn, the world’s biggest computer simulation of an ancient city. Reproduced on satellite-guided handsets and 3-D orientation movies in a theatre near [...]

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The Road of Death

Posted on 26. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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There are many roads in the world that qualify as death traps, such as Kenya’s Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret Highway on which more than 300 people perish annually in crashes caused by speeding, improper passing and drunken driving, or Egypt’s Luxor-al-Ghurdaqah road where the vast majority of drivers never turn on their headlights after sundown, ensuring a high fatality rate. Ironically, the only thing more dangerous [...]

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Crocodile Capers

Posted on 22. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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What is it about the Aussies and crocodiles? First there was Crocodile Dundee, then Steve “the Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, and now there is a new $30 million theme park in Darwin called Crocosaurus Cove, whose major attraction–the “Cage of Death”–allows thrill-seekers to swim face-to-face with a massive saltwater crocodile. Tourists climb into a clear acrylic [...]

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The Vegas Gambit

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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There are places we never visit because of what we suspect we will find there. We hear accounts from friends, read stories in the media, or see a movie set in the locale, and close our minds to a destination. Sometimes it pays to confront your biases, or as Hunter S. Thompson once put it, “Buy [...]