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...PETERSBURG: Russia's cultural capital is arguably at its most romantic in the fall months of September and October, or in winter, which lasts until early March. The turning of the leaves carpets the city in red and gold; the first drifts of snow evoke a scene straight out of Dr. Zhivago, complete with horse-drawn sleighs, ice skaters and illuminated spires. Arrive at yuletide and you get two Christmas celebrations?Dec. 25 and the Russian Orthodox version on Jan. 7. You can also congratulate yourself on having missed the excruciating queues, of a couple of hours or more, that...
...VAIL: With its spectacular Alpine setting, ski runs and seemingly endless forests, the Colorado town of Vail is one of North America's best winter resorts. But here's an insider tip: it's sensational in summer too. Low-season activities are snow-free but action-packed, and include biking, hiking, horseback riding and river rafting. Enjoy a round of golf (balls fly 20% further on Vail's high-altitude courses) or an evening of culture (dance and music festivals run through the summer). There's even pleasure to be had in totting up your bill: lodging is discounted...
...June 28, 1865, a few tilting spins of the earth beyond the year's longest day. And in the Bering Strait, the hazy rose-colored summer-dawn breaking over the blue-white ice-floes crowding its waters revealed a curious tableau: framed by the dark distant, snow-crowned headlands to the east and west and, at a lower elevation, the two, flat- and sheer-sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored to it by a web of radiating ropes bobbed five smaller...
...commitment to preserving wild places. With the nature writer John Burroughs he followed birdsongs in Yellowstone Park, then rode mules into Yosemite with John Muir, the great preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. Roosevelt and Muir slept under the stars and were covered overnight by a blanket of snow. T.R.'s journey from asthmatic ornithologist to hearty rancher turned President proved that a silver-spoon birth does not have to prevent a man from developing, over time, a broad vision and a rare kind of political gumption. All he required was a chance to make himself...
...apparently fueled numerous booster rockets capable of launching a Taepodong-2 missile in the country's northeast. The Taepodong-2 is believed to possess a range capable of hitting Alaska. U.S. and Japanese government spokesmen have both warned North Korea not to conduct a test. White House spokesman Tony Snow told CNN on Sunday that if North Korea goes ahead with a test, "then we will have to respond properly and appropriately at the time," though he declined to elaborate. Meanwhile, John Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said that members of the U.N. Security Council were holding preliminary...