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...called, are barely beginning to recover from the disappearance of their prized city, especially the imposing Citadel, which protected them against invading armies throughout Iran's history. "Bam without the Citadel is like a beehouse without honey," says Akbar Panjalizadeh, 61, a retired high school teacher. He owns a hostel for backpackers, where a tourist - a British motorcyclist - perished in the quake. Nonetheless, Panjalizadeh is busy rebuilding the guesthouse, sure that Bam will return to its former glory. "The Citadel didn't belong just to Bam, or Iran, it belonged to the world," he says. "They will rebuild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After the Quake: Still Digging Out | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...tour of Europe. But your brush with art needn't end at the museum exits. These days, you can stay in hotels that are part accommodation, part art space. Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena was both art center and hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dutch Masters | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...capital, Ulan Bator. At their guesthouse, tel: (976) 9909 1899, backpackers pay $5-$15 for one of 50 beds per night. Travelers are usually delighted to trade sleeping mats for queen-size beds and mare's milk for Cashell's signature turkey melts, which he serves up at the hostel's UB Deli. He has a library of DVDs, too, for those who eventually get bored of gazing at the forested Haert Khaan mountain range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steppe On It | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...looks like a hostel, basically,” Presser said...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Silver Medalist Returns to Harvard | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their parents hadn't taught them." Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch partner Paul Kronenberg, a development aid worker she met in 1997 in a hostel in Lhasa (the capital of the remote Chinese autonomous region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May 1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and bureaucracy," recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Visionary | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

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