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...eyes, the finest vantage point lies near the northern Indian hill station of Darjeeling. The ridge of Sandakphu is the only place on earth from which you can see four of the five tallest mountains: 8,848-m Everest, 8,586-m Kangchenjunga (pictured), 8,511-m Lhotse and 8,463-m Makalu. (K-2, the second tallest at 8,611 m, is over the western horizon in Pakistan...
Whether you're looking at them from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan or China, the Himalayas are always an uplifting sight: the world's highest mountain range has all 50 of the planet's tallest peaks, and most of the top 100. But to my eyes, the finest vantage point lies near the northern Indian hill station of Darjeeling. The ridge of Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born...
...traffic jams. But once the relay started, a look at the torchbearers revealed a surprise. Aside from a handful of lesser Olympians, India had chosen Bollywood stars and cricketers as the guardians of sports' supreme icon. The crowds were huge, and understandably so: the incongruous sight of India's finest actor, Aamir Khan, outfitted for his latest role as a 19th century anti-British mutineer with shoulder-length hair and a handlebar moustache, jogging with the futuristic metallic torch, was undeniably arresting. The newspapers went front page with pictures of an equally unlikely torchbearer?actress and former Miss World Aishwarya...
...poignant lyrics about prison life, drugs and, during the military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, politics. Fans show their appreciation by throwing flowers, usually gardenias. Bring a bunch to Taximi, on 29 Isavron Street, Exarchia, tel: (30-210) 363 9919, where black-and-white photos of rembetika's finest performers invoke the spirit of the genre's origins. Patrons take their music seriously, with old-timers in pinstripes dancing until dawn...
...jaws of a largish animal, one that perished some 24 million years ago. But what kind of animal? The others gather around, including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying...