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Anyone who still has an instant to spare can journey back in time and visit some of the many local historic sites and battlefields. But beware: the Shenandoah Valley can be addictive. Country singer Irlene Mandrell, who served as honorary fire marshall in the festival last year, was so enchanted by the beauty of the countryside and the warmth of the citizenry--"I just really had a good time," she says--that she is selling her home in the Nashville, Tenn., area and moving to Winchester with her family. --By Megan Rutherford...
...towners with a yen to explore will not be idle. Within an hour's drive: the Sundance resort and cultural center, the caverns of Timpanogos Cave National Monument, the vintage coaches of the Heber Valley Railroad and the Mormon historic sites of Salt Lake City...
...worked. What emerged over the next two years was a hypersmart and sassy voice that does for Silicon Valley and Alley what CNBC did for Wall Street. Knowing what you're talking about counts for a lot in a world of shrieking dotcom hype, and the Standard cut through the noise with speed, exuberance, minimal jargon and a dash of self-deprecating humor. Advertisers ate it up, and the Standard got very fat very quickly. Issue No. 1 had an anemic 25 pages of ads; now they frequently top 200. Ad revenues rose from less than $2 million...
While Japan is still in trouble, the rest of Asia "has come out of the bottom of the valley," claimed Victor Fung, chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Export growth is so strong, in fact, that Fung was concerned that "we may have come out of recession too early to get fundamental reforms." The region remains enthralled by a familiar theme: the emergence of China. Its entry into the World Trade Organization later this year, said Fung, "signifies China's taking its full place in the world." The prospects for growth are immense. Fung noted, for instance, that...
...coral reefs and gently slapping waves. You can rent a bungalow for $5 a day. The boys and girls seem to be young, thin and beautiful. They convene from all over the globe: club kids from London, bar hostesses from Tokyo, English teachers from Taipei, tech refugees from Silicon Valley--all looking to partake of this new civilization on the island that has become synonymous with hedonistic decadence...