Word: spectacularity
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...blood could help the sport, assuming the new guys can avoid run-ins with SUVs. "Believe me, I'm a Lance fan, but to be honest, the Tour de France has gotten kind of boring," says former U.S. Postal rider Jonathan Vaughters. "I think it will be much more spectacular with more competition." Don't worry, Generation Lance is climbing. --With reporting by James Graff and Mikael Holter/Paris and Tala Skari/Montpellier
...sight of acres of land naturally contoured, unobstructed by sport shops, that inspires the new intrepid golf tourists to lug their clubs across oceans. "You can't make something spectacular like that with a bulldozer," says Mike Lardner, a WWG co-president. "These are the kinds of courses that are basically designed...
...numbers of Guangdong peasants joined the great migration of Chinese workers abroad. Many went to North America or Australia as laborers. Others established small businesses and came back relatively prosperous. To display their new wealth - and protect it from floods and roving bandits common at the time - they built spectacular Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike...
...then there's the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado, which after its completion in 1963 not only robbed the Grand Canyon of sediment needed to rebuild sandbars and beaches but also drowned a spectacular landscape far bigger than the Hetch Hetchy Valley. Thanks to a multiyear drought that has only recently eased, the landscape has begun to re-emerge, energizing an effort by the Glen Canyon Institute to correct what conservationist David Brower called "America's most regretted environmental mistake." It's bound to be an uphill battle. The Glen Canyon Dam is part of the seven-state Colorado...
...addresses, and the main office tower houses the most famous companies of New Japan, including tech superstars Livedoor, Rakuten and Yahoo! Japan. On the 51st floor of this same tower is the Roppongi Hills Club, a members-only (initiation fee and deposit: $20,000) oasis of fine restaurants and spectacular views where authors, artists, celebrities and executives can gather in peace high above the masses. Every third Thursday of every month, Fujimoto convenes a meeting here of the Young Entrepreneur Organization, an association of 125 businesspeople under 40 who are the founders and CEOs of companies with at least...