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...Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset - a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol and the surrounding national park, scheduled this year for June 29. (If you're interested in competing, details can be found at www.ultramongolia.com.) With its mix of deep forests, rugged hills and pristine shores, the scenery at Sunrise to Sunset is as breathtaking as the race itself - and the 60 or so runners who participate...
...agreement permits Harvard to construct 328 housing units on two sites in Riverside in exchange for providing a public park and 36 affordable housing units for city residents...
...officials monitoring Turkey's pro-gress toward accession talks say the recent problems are no reason to push the panic button - yet. Once talks start, "we will have real leverage," argues Krisztina Nagy, spokeswoman for Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. "Nobody said it would be a walk in the park." If Ocalan gets a retrial, it could become a walk through a minefield as Erdogan tries to pick his way between Turkey's E.U. commitments and growing nationalist sentiment. "Turks may seem quiet and patient right now," says Bayramoglu, eyes still glistening, "but very soon there will come a moment when...
Xbox headquarters is a surprisingly unimpressive place, a generic office park in Redmond, Wash., across the road from a large gravel pit. Microsoft's inspiring name for this low-rent nerd farm is the Millennium campus, and it's where the company's money-losing projects live. Not for them the manicured lawns and sculpted berms and softball fields and fancy cafeterias of Microsoft's main campus. They get the gravel...
...Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss mountain sprite Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000?comprising the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel?a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital?into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker's latest runabout...