New York offers tourism promotion for visitors

NEW YORK -- Tourists heeding the urging of New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to come visit are finding bargains at more than 350 of New York City's best hotels, museums, restaurants, stores, Broadway shows and other businesses.

They are participating in a promotion called "Paint the Town Red, White & Blue," organized by NYC & Co., as the city's tourism arm calls itself. It's a new version of the popular Paint the Town Red winter celebration and it began two months early this year to include November and December in addition to the usual months of January and February.

NYC Freedom Packages begin as low as $157 per person for a one-night hotel stay, a Broadway show, dinner, donation to the Twin Towers Fund, discounted parking and additional discounts all over town. Visitors can choose from between one-, two- and four-night packages.

Utah limits alcohol to be sold at Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY -- Olympics revelers who will gather at Salt Lake City's downtown 2002 Olympic Downtown Festival have been told what alcoholic beverages they will be allowed to drink and what is forbidden.

Hot buttered rum is in, but Irish coffee and hot chocolate laced with schnapps are out.

The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission also approved brandy in specially labeled cups, spiced wine and the 3.2 percent beer that is sold in Mormon-dominated Utah.

Three special permits to serve the limited drink list were approved by the commission after city officials agreed to pare their list of proposed libations. Critics had feared many of the drinks would be too tempting to underage drinkers.

Holocaust Center under $2.8 million expansion

DALLAS -- With the guiding principle that the more people who remember the Holocaust, the less likely it is to happen again, an expansion is planned at the Dallas Holocaust Memorial Center.

The center's expansion means more space for artifacts, some of which have been in storage because of lack of space. The Dallas collection includes a boxcar used to transport Jews to death camps, passports, letters written to loved ones, concentration camp uniforms, and photographs with haunting images of human remains piled in mass graves.