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...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Even if we land at a destination giddy with excitement at the attractions in store, most of us hate to look like tourists. So just who will take up the Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur, tel: (60-3) 2380 8888, on its latest service is a mystery. The luxury hotel is loaning swanky shopping carts - stocked with mineral water and cold towels - to guests on expeditions to nearby stores...
Cross Talk You're on vacation in China, trying to get directions to a hotel, when you realize you've left your Mandarin phrase book on the plane. Fortunately, you have your Pocket PC, equipped with IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. MASTOR recognizes both Mandarin and English, automatically translating what it hears into the other tongue, so two people who speak different languages can have a conversation. In a TIME test, when told the phrase "I would like to rent a motorboat," MASTOR translated it audibly and flashed a picture of a boat onscreen. Although...
...ASIATE, New York This intimate restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental, tel: (1-212) 805 8881, features a very creative menu (check out the Caesar salad soup with bacon foam), elegantly simple d?cor and beautiful Central Park views...
...government has also deployed tens of thousands of Internet police to investigate online crimes, including political offenses. While some tech-savvy surfers can find ways through the firewall and past Web police monitors, the vast majority of China's 100-million online population will search in vain for Mandarin equivalents of the Drudge Report, blog screeds and independent journalism that define free online speech in most of the world. A recent study by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society concluded that "China's Internet filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world...
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