Word: shangri
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...time. I mean, if there's one thing that holds cinema back from being a 21st century art form, it's people. So let's go with pixels. They're cuter, cheaper, better behaved. They can simulate funny sea creatures (Shark Tale), re-create 1939 Manhattan or Shangri-La (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), visualize a future dystopia (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) with a wave of a wand, the click of a mouse...
...SHANGRI-LA - Greetings from the freezing hot, lush deserts of the world's most overpopulated wasteland. It seemed only fitting, after all, to take a presidential-style "working vacation" when filing a column about travel comix. Though comix' combination of art and narrative is ideally suited to travel books, only a handful have appeared, probably as a result of the medium's longtime marginalization. Suddenly, though, a group of works - two books and one comix series - have appeared with travel as the central theme. By traipsing through them, we can map out the route to the golden spires and around...
...Tracking HIV Yunnan is China's fourth largest province and historically one of its most mysterious and remote. (Its picturesque landscape of verdant hills and rustic villages inspired the legend of Shangri-La.) Its distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...
...result, nearly every high-end chain is expanding. The Shangri-La, Oberoi, Le Meridien, Hyatt and Taj chains are either upgrading or searching for new properties. In Rajasthan, for example, which shares a border with Pakistan, the ritzy Amanresorts International is opening two exclusive destinations, one a tented camp near a famous tiger reserve and the other, a hotel inside a palace in the so-called Blue City of Jodhpur, where virtually all the buildings are painted the same bright...
...Hong Kong and Lion City package for as low as $1,098. China Airlines has a three-night two-for-one special from the U.S. West Coast starting at $949. The special promotions appear to be working. Most upper-end hotels, like the Ritz-Carlton and the Island Shangri-La, are reporting more than four out of five rooms booked. "Just look at the lobbies," says a relieved Mark Lettinbichler, chairman of the Hong Kong Hotel Association...