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...Classified Cheese Room: Hong Kong's Classified Cheese Room, www.classifiedfoodshops.com.hk, is tucked away on Hollywood Road outside the city's SoHo eat streets, but that doesn't stop it from luring plenty of custom with its walk-in cheese facility stocked with 40 artisanal varieties. The cheeses can be served at the Cheese Room's parent operation, the Press Room restaurant next door, or in situ - choose from casual deli tables, or a wine cellar that functions as a private dining room...
...chocolate massage. A beauty salon, two restaurants and a bar are also on-site. This is a modern facility and hugely popular, attracting more than 1,000 customers daily, so get in early. Leibnizstrasse 7, tel: (49-611) 172 9880. (Read TIME's stories about romance on the road...
Several speed bumps lie on Uribe's road to re-election. Colombia's House and Senate must reconcile different versions of the re-election bill, which then must pass muster by the Constitutional Court. The issue would then be put before voters near the end of the year. At least one quarter of the electorate - about 7 million people - has to turn out to vote for the result to be deemed valid. If the "yes" votes outnumber the "no" votes by any margin - even just one vote - the referendum is passed...
...President has cultivated this grass-roots support through a series of televised town-hall meetings. On Saturday, he took his road show to a high school gymnasium in Pereira, a city in the heart of Colombia's coffee belt. Rolling up his sleeves and reveling in the minutiae of crop prices and road-paving projects, Uribe seemed more like an alderman. He cracked jokes, fielded requests for new ambulances and even got into a debate over the best spot to build a small sugar mill...
...hope as the much tougher battle over carbon cap and trade boils in Congress. "President Obama made the creation of a clean-energy economy a key aspect of his domestic agenda, and he's fulfilling that," says Weiss. It's a good start - but there's still a long road ahead...