Word: meccas
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Movie buffs might recognize Broken Hill's stark New South Wales landscape from films like Mad Max or Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Now it's also earning a reputation as a mecca for aspiring artists. With year-round light of relentless intensity, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder...
...start talking about “football,” only to realize with a sigh that you’re only discussing the other football, the one the barbarians in helmets play? Like many of these strange people from far-away countries, I came from India to this Mecca of education expecting to be a proud representative of my nation. Unfortunately, I’ve found a student body mostly disinterested in my differing world view. There is a gap at Harvard between the Americans and the internationals...
...things that are attractive are not particularly stylistic but have more to do with values," says Murray Moss, who owns Moss, a New York City design mecca. "It's a broader issue, that for lack of a better word we say the '50s [because] the closest we can relate to it are feelings that we haven't had since then." The mythology of the time looms so large that even the generations that didn't live through the era yearn for it today...
...sports events, such as the Dubai World Cup, horse racing's largest pot, and the Dubai Desert Golf Classic, which attracts top players, among them Tiger Woods. Another major attraction is the annual Dubai Shopping Festival. Its price reductions in fashion and electronics outlets temporarily turn Dubai into a mecca for the material world. Gambling may not exist here, but partying certainly does. There are no strict Islamic bans on alcohol?or on basically having fun in public?as in neighboring countries. A local edition of the listings magazine Time Out identifies 160 establishments in its "Nightlife" section...
...Math lounge is hidden in a discrete part of the department on the fourth floor of the Science Center, a strikingly social mecca for some of Harvard’s hungriest of minds...