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...dining has become so high-end it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. The hotels only get more and more extravagant and opulent. One of the must-have features is a posh spa: every Strip hotel has one, such as the 69,000-sq.-ft. Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Luxury designer shops, from Louis Vuitton and Gucci to Armani and Dior, are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, which is inside the Venetian...
With the Palms' success, the once secretive Vegas is courting the media. The Golden Nugget is the focus of The Casino; the Discovery Channel's American Casino follows the Green Valley Ranch hotel; Extra has regular Vegas segments. Vegas even has its own impressively attended comedy and film festivals. "The whole entertainment industry is looking to Las Vegas," says Trevor Groth, the director of programming of CineVegas, who persuaded Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper to show up for last month's sixth annual festival. "It's a suburb of Los Angeles...
...schools. The unemployment rate is more than a third below the national average, and there's more construction than in any other American city. The hotels only get more and more extravagant. One must-have feature is a posh spa, such as the 6,400-sq-m Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Vegas dining has become so high-end, with restaurants run by chefs such as Alain Ducasse, Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, that it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. Luxury shops - Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Armani...
...Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says casino owner Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water." "We're going through the reverse of what so many cities have suffered through, this flight out of the city," says Jim Murren, president of MGM Mirage and a longtime Vegas resident. Two weeks ago, the city unveiled a $650 million monorail...
...despite the President's efforts, the diplomatic tensions won't simply disappear. When Bush was asked if he would offer Chirac a coveted invitation to his Texas ranch, the President seemed hesitant. "If he wants to come and see some cows, he's welcome to come out there," he told the French magazine Paris Match. Chirac, a former agriculture minister, was just as cool in an NBC interview. "I myself am from a region," he noted, "where we raise cows--probably the most beautiful and best in the world...