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...Spanish company, FON, wants to change all this. Founded 15 months ago, FON touts itself as the world's largest wi-fi community, claiming 230,000 worldwide users-or Foneros-who can log on to each others' wireless networks for free. They do so by using FON's La Fonera wireless routers, available at fon.com for about $39. The routers split Internet signals into a secure network for personal use and a public network that can be accessed for free by other Foneros. Each user can log in to the network of any other FON user worldwide...
...still stunning at 47, possessed of digs on the Left Bank fully as grand as his. They were seen everywhere, usually together, at Gstaad or Cap d'Antibes in season, and at other times in the toniest watering holes of the capital. Only recently the Paris magazine Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode had ranked them among the most elegantly dressed members...
...Mexico’s student-run college papers was suddenly shut down two weeks ago by the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla (UDLA) following a series of controversial cartoons and opinion columns criticizing the university administration.According to the editor-in-chief of La Catarina, Sergio Zepeza, the administration has butted heads with the paper ever since its inception in 2000, and the animosity escalated with the paper’s sharp criticism of the university’s chancellor, Pedro Palou. Yet Zepeza said he was shocked when he saw four members of the administration accompanied by four security guards...
...high Swiss hamlet of Arosa wasn't already alluring enough, the addition of a sprawling $28 million spa makes it irresistible. Bergoase is the latest work of homegrown architect Mario Botta, whose commissions have included San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art and Milan's new-look La Scala opera house. The spa features sail-like steel-and-glass skylights, pictured, employs granite in abundance and is attached by a dramatic glass bridge to the recently renovated Tschuggen Grand Hotel. "I wanted the structure to have a deep, instant and intense bond with its surroundings," Botta says of the native...
...shocking twist of fate, the city did not choose to host its International Fireworks Competition, International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs Festival, International Film Festival, and Grand Prix in late January. However, one of Montreal’s 90 organized festivals is on during intersession, the famed La Fête des Neiges. Go to Parc Jean-Drapeau to watch the dogsled races in honor of Balto! He’s so brave! Before leaving the land of universal healthcare, stop at the magnificent Notre-Dame Basilica and pray for a change in Harvard’s calendar. Maybe next time...