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...Danish explorer Vitus Bering--for whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named--is a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast, and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...third time was the charm for the Dekes of MIT, who replaced luck with planning, developing this “hack” for nearly two years. The device was constructed using various instruments donated by MIT laboratories, a vacuum motor, and Freon gas. All these ingredients were directed towards inflating a larger-than-life balloon emblazoned with the school’s initials and earmarked for the 1982 Harvard-Yale football game...
Many former regulars came to check out the new Upstairs Tuesday night, but some said part of the old restaurant’s charm has been lost...
...Black Sea coast, Erdogan moved at age 13 to Istanbul, where he joined the youth wing of a party founded by Necmettin Erbakan, architect of Turkey's political Islamic movement. Erbakan, who later briefly became Prime Minister, saw in the tall young soccer fanatic an ambitious orator of considerable charm...
With so much in the films codified and inviolable, part of the charm lies in the fresh ideas and small tweaks that Wilson and Broccoli allow. The danger du jour, for instance, comes straight out of the headlines. "The films have adapted to make them relevant to the contemporary world," says Michael Harvey, curator of "Bond, James Bond," an exhibition of 007 cars, gadgets and memorabilia at London's Science Museum. From Russia with Love (1963) arrived at the height of the cold war; Moonraker (1979) took off at the zenith of the Star Wars craze; and in Die Another...