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...bread baked on the premises. An added bonus: in the evenings, erudite owner Fatima Chan holds forth on Ottoman art. tel: (60-3) 2694 9724 Bar SaVanh: Koi carp ponds, opium beds and mammoth buddha heads combine to make Bar SaVanh the slickest place along Jalan Doraisamy for aperitifs. Soak up the booze with tasty tidbits from CoChine, the Indo-Chinese restaurant upstairs. tel: (60-3) 2697 1180 La Bodega: Yearning for tapas and fat Monte Cristo cigars? Then head to this relaxed venue, perhaps the most chilled-out bar in the Changkat Bukit Bintang area. French windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colonial Cool | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

...keeps the book from being no more than a series of alphabetically arranged humor columns is the leitmotif of becoming a man: Jacobs somehow turns the effort of reading 33,000 pages into the world's most passive Bildungsroman. The project, it seems, springs less from an urge to soak up information than from a desire to confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Know-Everything Party | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...water to a facial with the lagoon's silvery-gray silt, which is said to have healing properties. Inevitably, there's also a boutique selling the Blue Lagoon's very own cosmetics, and an excellent seafood restaurant. Warning: stray too close to the lagoon's source while having a soak, and you'll quickly learn just how hot Iceland is beneath its frosty surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Time You're In...Iceland | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...water to a facial with the lagoon's silvery-gray silt, which is said to have healing properties. Inevitably, there's also a boutique selling the Blue Lagoon's very own cosmetics, and an excellent seafood restaurant. Warning: stray too close to the lagoon's source while having a soak, and you'll quickly learn just how hot Iceland is beneath its frosty surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Lies Beneath | 9/16/2004 | See Source »

...really worth so much more? Perhaps not, since the president of the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition maintains that "the machines that companies use as legitimate manufacturers are also available to the bad guys." But who are the "bad guys" here? To me, it's just as criminal to soak consumers for $1,465 more per handbag just because the real thing has a genuine leather zipper toggle and one less stitch on the handle strap. Jeff Deitrich State College, Pennsylvania, U.S. Only an idiot would spend $1,500 for a purse. I fail to see the appeal of these products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/12/2004 | See Source »

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