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...shock--especially after officials divulged that $18,000 in public funds would be used to create a lounge that would offer free condoms and lectures on safe sex. The bar in Yunnan province--a region that contains nearly a quarter of China's reported HIV and AIDS cases--was set to open Dec. 1, but the launch has been delayed following an outcry over the cost to taxpayers...
...sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine in which the Morlocks travel back in time to invade 1890s London. Steampunk--Jeter coined the name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine, a novel set in a Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron, who had escaped death in Greece...
...University of Michigan will probably take a similar approach when its ban takes effect in July 2011. "We don't have a desire to give tickets or levy punishments," says Robert Winfield, the school's chief health officer. "We want to encourage people to stop smoking, set a good example for students and make this a healthier community...
...Broadway show, not to mention the jazz revues, pools and aqua theater at your disposal. A luxury suite can put you out $7,609 a week, or $1,087 per day. Capacity across the industry has increased--15 ships have launched this year, including Carnival's Dream, and 12 set sail next year--so there are deals of less than $60 per day out there. "Hotels are shaking in their boots," says Peter Yesawich, CEO of Y Partnership, a marketing firm, "and they should...
...spas and the entertainment; it's also driving the trend to shorter hops. "Younger people aren't going to sail for 24 days down the coast of South America," says Yesawich. "They don't have that vacation time." That's one reason Oasis is based in the Caribbean and set up for seven-day voyages...