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...currency since the actual Stone Age, though my own collection was never worth more than the sum of its dimes. (All the same, to this day I get a chill any time I find myself around the intersection of Market Street and Dolores in San Francisco, where the U.S. mint sits on a hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt...
Shanghai is lauded as China's most sophisticated destination. Beijing is painted with a less glamorous brush. One is a booming metropolis where fashionistas sip mint juleps while overlooking the Bund.[an error occurred while processing this directive] The other is a gritty city where malcontent punks swig beer in spit-and-sawdust dives. Or so we're led to believe. But with the 2008 Olympic Games less than two years away, Beijing is undergoing a maniacal makeover - nowhere more brazen than in the city's wining-and-dining scene. With its army of foreign Mandarin students, Beijing has traditionally...
...house specialty is vermicelli—thin rice noodles in a fish sauce mixed with your choice of beef, pork, or chicken and mint, bean sprouts, and peanuts ($6.95). It is a lovely light dish, and certain versions feature a crispy spring role accompanied by the wonderfully tangy nuoc cham sauce on the side. You can customize it to your liking (I choose to skip the mint), making vermicelli a good choice for your first Vietnamese culinary experience...
...Mezouar Down an alleyway in the heart of a frenetic medina neighborhood, this old villa's five bedrooms, set around a serene courtyard with orange trees and a mosaic dipping pool, has carved mirror frames, tiled floors and silver-tin light shades. Drink mint tea on the Andalucian balconies or on rich-colored cushions in front of the fireplace in winter. 28 Derb El Hammam, Issebtinne, Medina...
...even closer to consumers and hoping to cash in on the $8.3 billion Americans already spend annually on air fresheners, candles and scented plug-ins. In August, ScentAir began offering a small home version of its smell machine for $30 a month. It comes with scent choices like eucalyptus mint, citrus musk and lavender with ylang-ylang, a derivative of a south Asian evergreen tree said to have aromatherapeutic benefits. "By comparison," says Van Epps, "plug-ins scream Grandma's bathroom aerosol...