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...starting price. Having paid $7.50, I kept quiet. "It changes your habits," says Nicolas Legrand, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer from Nice, aboard our Boeing 737-700 easyJet flight from Luton to Nice. "It's possible to get a flight for a few quid." When chewing over a getaway, he says, "the first thing I do is check [easyJet's] website." Not far from Legrand's house in Nice, the easyCruiseOne was docked, set against the muted tones of the port like a brushstroke in orange across a Monet. "Have you ever seen a ship as orange as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Livin' On Easy Street | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...from Abramoff, also in apparent violation of House ethics rules. Among those gifts, sources say, were high-end golf equipment, theater and sports tickets. Abramoff even used his own frequent flyer miles and hotel points to send Tony Rudy, a top DeLay aide at the time, on a weekend getaway, the sources said. Rudy did not respond to requests for comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes On DeLay | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...feel like the seventh graders hanging out in the Square are enjoying themselves more than you are, then it’s time to revert to middle-school style fun. Arcades provide a perfect—well, perfectly adequate—getaway from the struggling Harvard party scene. Recreate the days of braces, stirrup-pants, and LA Lights with a marathon session of Skee Ball, and forget all about final exams and that awkward conversation with the cute girl from section. After all, who needs a girlfriend when you’ve got Ms. PacMan...

Author: By Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pinball Wizard | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...when one is beyond the Great Wall," wrote the Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722), "that the air and soil refresh the spirit." The ruler's words could equally apply to the Red Capital Ranch, tel: (86-10) 8401 8886, a 90-minute drive northeast of Beijing and a favorite getaway for the city's sophisticates. Stepping through the gate reveals a vista considerably more pastoral than the smokestack and skyscraper views normally offered at Chinese hotels: a brook burbles through a thicket that hides 10 detached villas, and the resort is ringed by a Ming-era stretch of the Great Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back At The Ranch | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...when one is beyond the Great Wall," wrote the Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722), "that the air and soil refresh the spirit." The ruler's words could equally apply to the Red Capital Ranch, tel: (86-10) 8401 8886, a 90-minute drive northeast of Beijing and a favorite getaway for the city's sophisticates. Stepping through the gate reveals a vista considerably more pastoral than the smokestack and skyscraper views normally offered at Chinese hotels: a brook burbles through a thicket that hides 10 detached villas, and the resort is ringed by a Ming-era stretch of the Great Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check In | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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