Forbidden fruit.

• Position: Art

The Bush administration can talk tough about keeping Cuba off limits, but U.S. hoteliers, airline executives and travel operators are watching for the tiniest chink in the sugar cane curtain--and with good reason. If Cuba opened to U.S. citizens tomorrow, U.S. tourism to the Caribbean island would explode into a billion-dollar industry. Already U.S. airlines have lined up rights to fly to the island, cruise lines have worked out Cuban itineraries, and hotel...