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...world's largest indoor ski slopes, featuring fresh powder year round? While flying in on the stylish, state-owned Emirates Airlines, you might notice the artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree or the 56-story Burj al-Arab hotel, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, built like a billowing sail. Westerners are welcome, along with their vices. Europeans in bikinis mingle on the beach with Muslim women in abayas; alcohol flows freely at Dubai's nightclubs and resorts. With events like the Dubai World Cup, a horse race with a record $6 million purse, Dubai draws...
From a room looking out onto the Eiffel Tower, Galison wrote that he is drinking “about 10 times more coffee than is good for me” while working as a visiting professor at L’Ecole Normale Supeieure and L’Ecole des Mines...
...constricting clothes of the day, stroll, picnic or fish. Rousseau omits no unromantic detail: railway bridges, factories, chimneys, piers. In the stormy View of Malakoff (1908), telegraph poles and cables arch over houses, trees and passersby. Sometimes the sky is a background for hot-air balloons, biplanes, the Eiffel Tower, even zeppelins, as in Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child in Boy on the Rocks (1895-97) resembles a stuffed toy perched uncomfortably on some small mountain peaks...
Bound for Paris this holiday season? Then get your skates on. Following its successful debut last year, the ice-skating rink at the Eiffel Tower is back?and it's not just a pretty divertissement for the tourists. Last year's rink was widely praised for giving Parisians a reason to revisit a monument normally swarming with foreign holidaymakers, so expect to find plenty of locals gliding on the ice beside...
...same floor?for mulled wine and cakes. The rink is open daily until Feb. 1, 2006, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Best of all, in the spirit of festive giving, rink admission and the loan of a pair of skates are included in the price of your Eiffel Tower ticket...