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...Dream Rathauplatz, Vienna Cityplaza Ice Palace, Hong Kong Hong Kong's subtropical climate might make ice skating seem an unlikely pastime, but this is a great place to escape from the heat. Centrally located and right on top of the subway's Taikoo Station, Cityplaza's rink features a skylight for sunny days or moonlight skates, and is one of only two in the world with a fully computerized skating-school system that schedules lessons, locates coaches, and monitors skaters' progress, making it popular year-round. The Cityplaza Ice Palace offers an all-day pass, from...
...Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station. "Actually, we're frozen in the 1970s." Over the past year, delegations of American oil executives have flown regularly to the Essider terminal and to Waha's desert oil fields, trying to discern how to re-enter Libya. Under a 1986 standstill agreement, the fields are still partly the property...
LEROY CHIAO, U.S. astronaut, after five weeks in which he and a fellow space-station occupant had to eat reduced rations because the previous crew had eaten some of their food...
...journalists - that he would be the hero of any other film. (Rushing resigned his commission this year, joining the Veterans? antiwar brigade Operation Truth and saying of the Administration?s purported evidence of Saddam?s WMDs, ?I felt personally duped.?) In the other half, the film focuses on the station?s headquarters in Qatar, where its program director, Samir Khader, rails eloquently at U.S. media, then adds, ?Mind you, if I were offered a job at Fox News, I?d take...
...ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes dinner for the family but not for herself. She says she's just too harried. Not until 10 p.m. or so, when the children are in bed and the house is finally quiet, does the speedy Gonzalez relax...