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...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder With four orchestras and three opera theaters, Prague, the city that gave the world Antonín Dvorák and hosted the premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni, offers plenty to satisfy most music lovers. For the truly demanding there is now Aria, a music-themed five-star hotel in the picturesque Malá Strana district. It features 52 rooms and suites celebrating four musical genres and their best-known artists. Opera buffs can choose Mozart or Verdi...
...Giovanni Schiaparelli could have told you there had been water on Mars. It was Schiaparelli who peered through his telescope one evening in 1877 and discovered what he took to be the Red Planet's famous canals. As it turned out, the canals were an optical illusion, but as more powerful telescopes and, later, spacecraft zoomed in for closer looks, there was no shortage of clues suggesting that Mars was once awash in water. Photographs shot from orbit show vast plains that resemble ancient sea floors, steep gorges that would dwarf the Grand Canyon and sinuous surface scars that look...
...children, each with key posts in the family empire, were well aware of their father's alleged deeds. Investigators claim the younger Tanzis helped divert as much as €400 million into private family accounts to try to salvage the tourism business run by Francesca. The founder's brother, Giovanni Tanzi, was also arrested last week, along with another four Parmalat officials. Enrico Bondi, a corporate bailout wizard installed by the Italian government, is trying to salvage the company. A Parmalat spokesman told TIME that a draft company-restructuring plan will be submitted this week. The Parma soccer team, once...
...incognito stints at Fiat operations: a headlight plant in England, a production line in Poland. He continues to plug away in obscurity, and has declined to answer press queries about the future. Questions in the past were related to the tragic circumstances of Elkann's rise. Originally, his cousin Giovanni Alberto Agnelli had been tapped, but he died of cancer in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's son Edoardo committed suicide...
...ornate railing, overlooking one of the lower galleries. Others reclined in luxurious brown leather couches and chairs, chatting amidst paintings by turn-of-the-century American painters. The scene was quintessential Gatsby—cultured, decadent and highly civilized. Renaissance works by renowned artists including Anthony van Dyck, Giovanni Battista Moroni and Peter Paul Rubens grace the walls of the adjacent European paintings wing, where the wine flowed profusely—by way of several long cash bars. Live music by the David Eure Jazz trio set a mellow mood as violinist David Eure, pianist Jacques Chanier and bassist Carlos...