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Euro Special. Open Skies, a new subsidiary of British Airways, flies smaller 64-seat Boeing 757s, from New York to Paris. There are only two classes: Biz, with a flat bed, and Prem+, a step up from economy, with reclining seats and 52 inches of legroom. On Oct. 15, the carrier will begin service between New York and Amsterdam; the first 1,000 customers flying Prem+ will pay just $499 roundtrip. The airline will also sell 1,000 Prem+ seats from NYC to Paris...
...York City's Lexington Avenue, was Starwood's first W ever. The 10-year-old hotel has just finished a complete bed-and-bath renovation of all of its 688 rooms and suites. Some swanky touches: brand-new pillow-top beds with white duvets, headboards inlaid with backlit photos, flat-screen TVs in every room, ceilings painted aubergine, LED lights around the windows and bed that allow you to create mood lighting. To mark the occasion, from now until Dec. 31, the hotel is offering a "Renovation Package," including a head-to-toe Bliss Spa gift set, two glasses...
...Serve Concierge. Select Sheraton Hotels in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, as well as Seattle's boutique Hotel 1000, have added Microsoft Surface to their lobbies. The service is basically a do-it-yourself concierge, where up to four guests can sit around an interactive flat screen surface built into a table and look through city maps, get restaurant and bar recommendations, find 24-hour pharmacies and get directions to nearby destinations. At Hotel 1000, you can also use the concierge station to view and edit photos on your camera's memory card...
...brother and friends lead lives that fall outside of Pat’s perception; each one blends seamlessly into the next as faceless Eagles fans. While the lifeless secondary characters further demonstrate Pat’s limited understanding of the world around him, they also provide a flat landscape for Quick’s novel. By fully immersing the reader in Pat’s world, Quick manages to woo the reader to Pat’s side. Although it soon becomes very clear to the reader how (and with whom) the novel will end, there is still a certain...
...metal,” but whatever you think of that movement you cannot say that it was subtle. Simplistic left-wing posturing works much better when coupled with loud, powerhouse riffs, and Zack de la Rocha’s rapping than it does here with Morello’s flat voice and only intermittently engaging instrumentation. The volume may have been turned down, but on “The Fabled City” the failure of the Nightwatchman project rings through loud and clear...