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...river's special hydrotopographical features, "if you use your fins to face upstream at the right moment on a standing wave, you can stay there forever." Just save plenty of energy for the 250-m vertical climbs out of the gorge on handmade bamboo ladders that punctuate the rock face along the way. Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers that the Zambezi was navigable: "It is hard to believe that the Zambezi has now become an adventure-sports Mecca." Livingstone might be surprised at the river...
What's in it for Lagerfeld? Although he's a rock star in the fashion world, his name doesn't have the same mass appeal as Lauren's or Giorgio Armani's. With name recognition, as they have so amply proved, comes the ability to sell jewelry, watches, eyewear, home furnishings and lighting--all of which are planned for the Lagerfeld line. And the positioning has been cleverly conceived as ageless. "It's not age specific in the sense of price or style," says Ann Acierno, president of Karl Lagerfeld. "Department stores can put it in multiple places, and women...
...concerned, there has never been a better time to be Indian. After decades of being the only significant English-speaking market in the world to be ignored by nearly everybody else, India is suddenly the flavor of the new century. Vogue will launch an Indian edition next year. Every rock act of note plays Bangalore: the Rolling Stones were here three years ago and U2 will perform in the autumn. Chanel spent several hundred thousand dollars on a single evening's festivities to announce its entry into India, and Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Gucci and the others are on their...
...Winter Games, will sound its own vibrant notes as it shows off its unsung charms to an audience of 2 billion around the world. The gods of the Olympics might begin to get their bearings up at the Sacra di San Michele. Perched on a jagged rock formation nearly a kilometer above the valley that connects the city to the Alps just 80 km away, this 10th century Benedictine abbey offers a sweeping panorama of the winterland known as the Milky Way, where some 2,500 athletes will vie for gold. Look westward from the Sacra's cobblestone terrace...
...like your Games, it all starts to crystallize into a vivid storyline as the wind whips around the Sacra di San Michele, where our guide, Cerutti, is pointing up toward the floor of the chapel. The entire church structure, he explains, was built into a crater of the rock by master builders in medieval times. "They wanted to defy the laws of gravity," he says. In these parts, the gravity-defying feats have only just begun...