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...America in 1999, when his last-minute substitution in "Gala of the Century" in Ravinia with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 brought the audience to its feet. "It was," says Lang Lang, "the moment of my dreams." In China he's played for former President Jiang Ze-Min, been the subject of a best-selling biography, and is recognized on the streets. Now that success is spreading to the West. He's onto his second record contract, having just been snapped up by Deutsche Grammophon, which recently released his recordings of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn concertos. In July...
...Chicago's Four Seasons hotel is offering a caviar facial treatment at its in-house spa. Guests have their faces smothered in a pricey mixture of caviar, pearl proteins and marine agents, and afterward they sip a little bubbly and nibble on a caviar canape. Book yourself a 30-min. treatment for $65, 50 min. for $110 or go full throttle for 80 min. at $155. --By Alix Strauss
...Dover last week when FELIX BAUMGARTNER jumped from a plane at 30,000 ft. With a 6-ft., carbon-fiber wing strapped to his back and a supply of oxygen handy, the Austrian stuntman glided the 22 miles to Calais, France, reaching speeds of 217 m.p.h. Of his 14-min. jaunt, he remarked, "It's very cold up there...
Last week Wan Min Bin Wan Mat, a witness in the trial of Ali Gufron, a.k.a. Mukhlas (pictured), alleged mastermind of the Bali attack, confirmed what investigators have long suspected: Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda had directly funded the Oct. 12, 2002 bombings which killed 202 people. Wan Min, who is being held without trial under terrorism charges in Malaysia and testified by video-link, is Jemaah Islamiah's (JI) putative treasurer, and he confessed to personally delivering the $30,000 used to fund the Bali attack. That was merely the latest in a series of revelations that have...
...With me still at the controls, we whipped around Powder River a few more times and made a fake bombing run on an imaginary column of Iraqi T-72 tanks. Our 1 hour, 13 min. mission completed, Blood resumed control of the aircraft and brought us back to Ellsworth. The landing was smooth, and, I'm proud to report, my gloves were clean...