Word: flea
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...city full of single-lane roads, crowded cafés and neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with...
...with the gilded Baghdad palaces from which Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, the bombed-out remains of an air-defense base a few miles outside the southern city of Nasiriyah don't look much like a headquarters for the country's next government. The only intact building is a dusty, flea-infested warehouse that had no windows, no running water, no bathrooms. But that is where Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial leader of the once exiled Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), set up shop last week after the Pentagon airlifted him and some 600 fighters of his newly named Free Iraqi Forces into...
...beautiful cities in Europe; it's also one of the liveliest, and the best way to see it is through its panoply of specialized markets. On Wednesdays and Fridays there's a tiny farmers' market for foie gras and poultry. On Saturdays, it's booksellers, organic foods and a flea market; on Sundays, a huge traditional market for food, flowers, clothing and housewares...
...even bigger flea market. And every day but Monday, there's a big, bustling, cornucopia-style covered market that puts sterile grocery chain stores to shame. Toulouse has been a market town since its early days as the Gallo-Roman Tolosa. In the Middle Ages the city was governed by councilors called capitouls, chosen from among the leading merchants. In the 15th century the merchant class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central...
...budget? Not to worry. target.com hsn.com and qvc.com all offer big selections of fashion jewelry with precise size measurements. Jewelrymall.com links to hundreds of inexpensive and unique jewelers. And if you like to set your own prices, the virtual flea markets at ebay.com have deals on everything from moonstones to malachite...