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...stone boxes are built over steam vents and used as ovens. Ned's Cafe, the village restaurant, specializes in hangi, serving up the kind of hearty WWII-vintage meals that gave British food its bad name. But even the luncheon meat and chicken with stuffing comes out moist and pleasant, and made very palatable by the tang of the salts. Dessert, inevitably, is steamed pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...villagers began to replace their flimsy huts with colonial-style bungalows, but most of them had piped hot water long before the arrival of their European neighbors. Boiling water is still diverted by a system of sluices to communal bathing pools, where the upstream temperatures cool down for a pleasant natural spa soak. Villagers also run cold-water pipes through the scalding pools to the taps in their houses, providing endless free supplies of hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...light, or a hallucination or a burst of wishful thinking. But since we do not know (and by definition cannot know) the probability of the supernatural’s existence, the assertion that every ghost or fairy-sighting must be a fiction is little more than a pleasant materialist prejudice...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Enchanted World | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...renovated parts are much more pleasant and less dark and dreary,” said Jillian R. Shulman...

Author: By Blythe M. Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stacks’ First Chapter Ends | 4/17/2002 | See Source »

...going to like the Souvannaphoum Hotel as soon as the rumpled bellboy showed me into its best suite and began pointing out its features. "There's no television," I said, as my eyes adjusted to the crepuscular gloom. "Correct, sir," he replied, beaming. Then he bid me a pleasant stay and turned on his heel, with nary a hint of the smarmy loitering or obsequious entreaties that generally accompany the importuning of tips in expensive hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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