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After a day's shopping, it's time to wind down. Hanoi's center, both geographically and culturally, is the pristine Lake Hoan Kiem. According to legend, it was here that a giant tortoise swam off with the Emperor's magical sword, after the Emperor drove off those Chinese invaders in the 1400s. Today it's a popular gathering spot where locals stroll, play chess, practice tai chi and, at night, admire the jewels that dot the lake: the red-lacquered Rising Sun Bridge, the Jade Mountain Temple and the Tortoise Tower. Here visitors can soak in the real Hanoi...
...lake in Western Victoria, Bob McClelland is harvesting wheat - and grateful to be doing it. Thanks to a little rain and a pipeline from the Murray River, McClelland's farm is surviving the six-year drought that's parched much of southeast Australia. He isn't sure if it's just one of the region's periodic dry spells or if, as some scientists say, it's been worsened by global warming. But "I'm a bit of a believer in climate change," he says. "All those Arctic glaciers melting - there must be something happening...
...Nestle's case, the risks lurk literally everywhere. The company dates back to 1867--when Henri Nestle started selling a cereal he had invented for infants--and is still based in his hometown, Vevey, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva. But it has long outgrown its Swiss roots and is today perhaps the most multinational of multinationals. Its products are available in almost every nation in the world, and its executive board is made up of two Americans, two Austrians, a Briton, a Dutchman, a German, a Mexican, two Spaniards and a Swede. Yet its corporate culture remains firmly grounded...
...time. Traditional Polish sour soup and a sausage cost $8; Polish-style duck and sour green apple, $32. Not far away, on Ulica (Polish for street) Belwederska, the Restauracja Polska-Tradycja, or Restaurant Polish-Tradition, serves saddle of deer and homemade dumplings ($20) and fresh smoked fish from the lake region ($7). For those who prefer dancing and a light (not necessarily Polish) meal, Labo, on the fashionable Ulica Mazowiecka, is among Warsaw's most popular clubs. This spring, starting on March 31, the Polish capital will be host of the International Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. In October...
...sunny Friday morning two summers ago, Daniel Vasella got quite a wake-up call. Outside his lakefront home near Zug, Switzerland, gigantic speakers blasted Wagner's Gotterdammerung loud enough to rattle the windows. From across the lake, several boats carrying protesters converged on his house. A helicopter delivered a barrel marked with a skull and crossbones to one of the boats. Baffled, Vasella watched as the barrel was ferried to shore and plunked on his lawn...