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...attend only one Naadam in your lifetime, this should be the year. In ordinary times, Naadam (the word means "festival") is the most important event on the Mongolian calendar and an occasion when people participate in traditional games and feasting. But this year's[an error occurred while processing this directive] celebrations, held on July 11 and 12, are being staged on a much grander scale in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Genghis Khan's Mongol empire. Though festivities are organized all over the country, the biggest take place in the capital, Ulan Bator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...error occurred while processing this directive]At the end of a long day of meetings, sometimes the last thing a business traveler wants to do is change into sweats and head down to the hotel gym or tackle the local running trails. But exercise becomes that much harder to shirk with a Travel Trainer ($89.90 from travtrainer.com) beckoning reproachfully from the corner of the room. Perfect for the harried road warrior, this portable exercise kit fits into a 56-cm bag and comprises a fitness ball, exercise mat and resistance bands (pulled taut they form the basis of muscle-building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gym to Go | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...many of them deal in unalluring stuff like mud facials and seaweed wraps. How about something more in keeping with the luxurious surroundings and sky-high prices? Realizing that not everyone wants to be smeared in algae or scoured with salt, some spas are offering therapies featuring[an error occurred while processing this directive] caviar, chocolate, even champagne. If you want to put the aah back in spa, skip the kelp masks and go straight for these top-dollar treatments. BEVERLY HILLS: You're not about to squander your precious appointment at the Beverly Hills Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Tastes | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

What does it take to be able to do business on a Sunday? Ask Louis Vuitton. The luxury retailer's revamped flagship store on the Champs Elysées has been attracting thousands of visitors every day since it reopened last October. But last week, a Paris tribunal [an error occurred while processing this directive] ruled that the luxury-goods firm has been breaking the law by opening its huge, 1,800-sq-m emporium on Sundays, one of its most heavily trafficked days. Although much Sunday trading is banned in France, Louis Vuitton had received an exemption from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unwelcome Rest | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...listened it occurred to me that only someone who's never downloaded music, or someone who doesn't read, could imagine a direct correlation between the tracks of a recording and the paragraphs of a book. Comparing word snippets to playlists is cynical propaganda, or at best an error in logic that could only be made by a person who doesn't love and live with them both: Elitist and wrong, or ignorant and wrong, depending on your point of view. Musical playlists, like film soundtracks, are about using songs to create an aural atmosphere, a soundtrack for life. Listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why John Updike Is So Wrong About Digitized Books | 5/31/2006 | See Source »

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