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...sends a virtual sledder (wearing a red scarf) along the route until he swoops, swerves and crashes. Build an elaborate enough course and you'll feel like a little kid playing in the snow again, zooming downhill, popping up in the air, wiping out on a ramp jump a la Evel Knievel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Newest Time Waster: Line Rider | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...this all amounts to a sea change in attitude. "Ten years ago, if the head of the CIVB had said we'll grub up vines, somebody would have set fire to his car," says Frédéric Guiraud, who runs a wine trading business near Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, a town on the eastern edge of the Bordeaux region. Guiraud's firm, GRM, used to be the one that regularly bottled and bought Charles' wine. But times have changed. "Today, we refuse a huge amount, about 90% of the wine people offer us," Guiraud says. "Sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Of A Good Thing | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...region, including a 1985 Château Margaux[an error occurred while processing this directive] that's on sale for a mere $1,487.50. Asked if wine is now certifiably hot in China, Mirey, the former sommelier at Petrus, a splashy French restaurant in Hong Kong's Island Shangri-La hotel, grins and says, "Oh yeah." Well, maybe - or maybe not. Despite a proliferation of trendy wine bars and stores in Shanghai and Beijing, China as a whole remains a huge disappointment for the world's winemakers. Just a few years ago, there were broad expectations that China would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Isn't Hitting The Bottle | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...fresh and folded clothes join pepperoni pizza and Peking duck among the items that students can have delivered straight to their doors. The student-run start-up DormAid, in its continued effort to compete with the well-established Harvard Student Agencies Cleaners, launched the “A La Carte Laundry and Room Cleaning Service” this past weekend, offering emergency housekeeping assistance to students who aren’t signed up for a long-term plan. Customers can have their laundry picked up from their dorm room and returned within two business days. Even though...

Author: By Jennifer Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DormAid Cleans Out Closets | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...clay tennis court and five swimming pools. Each of the 17 rooms is unique, with brass lamps, carved headboards and armchairs, and handwoven textiles. Most items are designed by owner Meryanne Loum-Martin or hand-picked by her in markets from Uzbekistan to India. Route de Ses, Circuit de la Palmeraie, Marrakech; tel: (212) 24 32 94 23; www.jnanetamsna.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Desert's Edge | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

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