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...Sky High. Las Vegas's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is offering two packages. Start with an in-room fitting with lingerie designer Love Jones and then a Swedish massage. Enjoy a complimentary bottle of wine, and once you're relaxed enough, hop a champagne helicopter ride (the champagne's for you, not the pilot) to get a different perspective on the city's night life. Rates start at $220. Mention code CSP0109. 455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, 702-693-5000 (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...complete reopening of the crossings as part of a one-year truce. And that stalemate could bring more trouble for the tunnelers. Egyptian authorities evacuated the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, acting on reports of a possible Israeli air strike on tunnelers. And as Israeli planes streaked across the sky, the diggers scrambled away from their tunnels - only to return once the planes had gone. (See images of heartbreak in the Gaza conflict...
...crazy down there," says Aymad. "Many times, when we're digging, we'll run into another tunnel." Aymad once brought his 2-year-old boy into the tunnel, he says, "so he can see what his father is forced to do for a living. We Gazans like the open sky, the sea. Not this. We don't like going into the ground." He keeps a photo in his cell phone of himself and his bawling son crouched together in a narrow tunnel. "He stopped crying once we got back under the sky," Aymad reassures...
...sky would not be blue. It would be grey...
...That first year, the event was packaged as the "Extreme Games" and included skateboarding, bungee jumping, roller blading, mountain biking, sky surfing, and even street luging. As with the Olympics, winners were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals. Not everyone took the event very seriously. One especially snarky USA Today columnist called the X Games the "Look Ma, No Hands Olympics," adding, "Apparently - and it's possible I'm misinterpreting a cultural trend here - if you strap your best friend to the hood of a '72 Ford Falcon, drive it over a cliff, juggle three babies and a chain...