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...granting outposts to chefs such as Emeril Lagasse, Thomas Keller, Alain Ducasse, Charlie Palmer, Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Vegas dining has become so high-end it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. The hotels only get more and more extravagant and opulent. One of the must-have features is a posh spa: every Strip hotel has one, such as the 69,000-sq.-ft. Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Luxury designer shops, from Louis Vuitton and Gucci to Armani and Dior, are so common that they...
...help establish a beachhead, they have carefully blended all the Vegas pomp at the Sands Macao into an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for "eight" rhymes with the word meaning "get rich") to rounding the high rollers' area with beehive curves to encourage its inhabitants to "leave their honey." The staff is more polite than the Chinese have come to expect...
...headed to Yugoslavia for a highly publicized rematch with his cold war--era rival Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly in the Philippines, Japan, Switzerland and Hungary, and claims to have quit playing chess in favor of a game of his own creation, Fischerandom chess, in which traditional playing pieces are put in mostly random places on the board. Last week immigration authorities took the renegade gamester...
...posh spa, such as the 6,400-sq-m Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Vegas dining has become so high-end, with restaurants run by chefs such as Alain Ducasse, Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, that it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. Luxury shops - Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Armani, Dior - are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Venetian, home to the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, the Bellagio houses a gallery that shows works from the Museum of Fine...
...Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners in a $10 billion project to duplicate the Vegas Strip on a sliver of reclaimed land between two of the territory's islands. The Sands Macao carefully blends Vegas pomp with an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for eight rhymes with the word meaning get rich) to rounding the high rollers' area with...