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...your idea of a quiet time, but the nice thing about cruises on the Orient Express' Road to Mandalay in Burma is that they include many side trips, so you can escape most of the crowd if you want to. Guided pagoda tours, market hopping and a train ride into the Kachin jungle are among the offerings. Alternatively, while the other guests are on excursions, you can simply sit on a deck chair, cocktail in hand, and take in the stunning riverscape. The four-night cruise to Mandalay and Bagan costs about $2,100; an 11-night cruise, including Bhamo...
...everything a modern art museum could want: a prime location overlooking the nation's capital, a dramatic new building designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei and an expected deluge of art-hungry visitors. Luxembourg is one of this year's European Capitals of Culture, and a new TGV fast-train line from France opens in June...
Before boarding a train in New York last weekend, I stopped at a newsstand to buy my usual travel provisions: a bottle of water, some Orbit gum, and a newspaper. Then, standing over the shelves of magazines, I gave in to a guilty desire and bought the March issue of Cosmopolitan. Whenever I pick up a copy of Cosmo, my immediate impulse is to pull the magazine close to my chest and to look around to check that no one I know is present to witness the act. This reaction must be a throwback to the grocery store checkout lines...
...least 15 minutes, but that her hands were blue when she was put loaded an ambulance. The Cambridge Police Department referred all questions to the MBTA police. The incident comes exactly one week after an unidentified man attempted suicide by jumping onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train at the Harvard Square T station. —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...
...magazine at my leisure. The book world was quick to follow—within the next two months, there will be a reissue of her 1996 biography “Great Big Beautiful Doll” in trade paperback and a release of a second biography “Train Wreck: Anna Nicole Unauthorized.” Every few years, a new article comes out proclaiming that the book is an endangered species, being pushed out of prominence by the newer media of magazines, television or the Internet. But literature always seems to survive the advent of newer media, partially...