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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...could enhance your romantic tryst by the Sea of Cortez by raking an enormous heart into the sand and perhaps, when you return from the beach, you'll find your bedroom decorated with 1,000 red roses. Woods can order up a white stallion to deliver a wedding ring or strolling classical guitarists to set the mood. She also offers cooking lessons to teach newlywed men how to make breakfast in bed. But achieving the right effect is no quick fling for Woods: "To create a truly intimate moment with lasting impact, we need many personal insights, and that takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Helping Hand for Cupid | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical marvels into a performance called Sharmanka (barrel organ), bathing the works in light, shadow and music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Very Moving | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...could enhance your romantic tryst by the Sea of Cortez by raking an enormous heart into the sand and perhaps, when you return from the beach, you'll find your bedroom decorated with 1,000 red roses. Woods can order up a white stallion to deliver a wedding ring or strolling classical guitarists to set the mood. She also offers cooking lessons to teach newlywed men how to make Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Helping Hand For Cupid | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...media had a field day, reporting that while Kraft thought he was just showing his ring to Putin, the Russian president assumed it was a gift. To avoid embarrassment, Kraft released a statement later to the effect that Putin had been so taken with the ring that, "At that point I decided to give him the ring as a symbol of the respect and admiration that I have for the Russian people and the leadership of President Putin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-mail From Moscow: The Joke Remains the Same | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...harm done, either way: Putin got the ring - and properly turned it over to the state depository for gifts, according to his staff. Kraft made the ring a gift to Putin to demonstrate his respect - and, one hopes, his intention to invest in Russia to his and Russia's mutual profit. However, the morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-mail From Moscow: The Joke Remains the Same | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

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