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...This ancient Alpine monastery has offered refuge to travelers for more than 1,000 years. Today, $51 will get you a bed, views of three public squares and a vista that would make the Von Trapp family yodel in ecstasy. INDIA The Golden Temple Not for the high-maintenance tourist, this vast Sikh temple in Amritsar operates a hostel and a community kitchen. With about 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...
...INDIA The Golden Temple Not for the high-maintenance tourist, this vast Sikh temple in Amritsar operates a hostel and a community kitchen. With about 40,000 mouths to feed each day, service is spotty, but who cares? Room and board are free...
...Marrakech's Djamaa El-Fna square is home to a loud, colorful marketplace. Locals shop for herbs and fruit, while the snake charmer's pipes and the fortune-teller's call compete for the almighty tourist dollar. By night, though, the square is transformed into a smorgasbord of street food. A cloud of smoke hangs over endless rows of food stalls, each one grilling, boiling, frying or steaming some tasty morsel. Chefs in white aprons scoop, slice and serve like doctors trying to cure world hunger, one bowl of couscous at a time...
...goes according to plan, Flight 158 will take off this week from Kourou in French Guiana, soaring up and away over the tiny South American country's lush equatorial forests and sandy Atlantic beaches. Flight 158 is no ordinary tourist shuttle, though. It's an Ariane-5G rocket that will launch the Rosetta spacecraft on an ambitious journey halfway across the solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet...
...order to avoid making it a tourist attraction or a shrine, we believe the best course of action is to eliminate it." ROBERT CARGIE, spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, after the unit asked for permission to destroy the hole in which its soldiers found Saddam Hussein...