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...partnership with composer John Kander, created the brassy, cynical-but-sweet scores of such Broadway musicals as Cabaret and Chicago; in New York City. After penning a few pop hits (including the novelty number Santa Baby), he teamed up with Kander for a long Broadway run that started with Flora the Red Menace in 1965. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza Minnelli, who, in a 1977 Martin Scorsese film, introduced their omnipresent big-city anthem, New York, New York. DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the bestselling Cold War novel Fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/21/2004 | See Source »

...Just an hour's drive from Phuket airport lies Khao Lak on the mainland and better known among divers as the jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff members are clad in black, and so is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start around $85 a night. Meanwhile, a 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town, on Racha Island, lies the Racha. Fronting one of Thailand's most pristine beaches, this Sanctuary resort boasts 70 villas. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check In: Phuket | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...Hong Kong-based, eco-conscious developer, which recently opened two facilities in the area. Just an hour's drive on the mainland from Phuket airport lies Khao Lak, better known among divers as the jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff are clad in black, as is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start at around $85 a night. A 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town is Racha Island, and an eponymous resort. Fronting one of Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phuket Gets A Makeover | 8/15/2004 | See Source »

...Pedro!" Today, La Gomera remains home to about 18,000 residents, and tourism is helping to stanch emigration by those no longer able to make a living from farming or fishing. Ferries make the 40-minute trip from Tenerife, and one of the attractions, apart from a rich flora in the cloud-shrouded peaks, the highest of which is just under 1,500 m above sea level, is the chance to hear whistle-speak. When Eugenio Darias was born in 1950, phones were still a novelty. "I learned the Silbo playing in the street," he recalls. "If you didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whistle a Day Keeps Globalization Away | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

...donation, given to OCP by Harvard PhD recipients Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, comes in conjunction with a grant renewal from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which contributed $1.25 million in 2002 to the “Women Working” project. While the two funds will not officially be combined, they will ultimately go towards the same three projects...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Library Donation Will Fund Websites | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

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