Word: vibes
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...help establish a beachhead, they have carefully blended all the Vegas pomp at the Sands Macao into an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for "eight" rhymes with the word meaning "get rich") to rounding the high rollers' area with beehive curves to encourage its inhabitants to "leave their honey." The staff is more polite than the Chinese have come to expect...
...gondoliers. Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners in a $10 billion project to duplicate the Vegas Strip on a sliver of reclaimed land between two of the territory's islands. The Sands Macao carefully blends Vegas pomp with an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for eight rhymes with the word meaning get rich) to rounding...
Zakrzewski describes feeling as though she is “on a different planet for a little while” when she performs in front of hundreds of people and says that vibe is one of the things that keeps drawing her back to the piano...
...competition is about the music. This season, TIME had exclusive access to the Idols throughout their week, from Thursday, when rehearsals begin, through the tearful goodbye dinner on "Weird Wednesday," as it's called, when one more candidate goes home. There certainly is an earnest, hardworking kids-from-Fame vibe about the group. Their week is grueling, filled with song-selection sessions, rehearsals, run-throughs, commercial and promo shoots, performances and interviews. (Minors Trias and DeGarmo, 16, also spend three hours a day with a tutor.) But in ways subtle and more blatant, the singers are also getting persona coaching...
...licensed pro. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) alone is spending $4 million on the program, which also includes TV spots during this year's U.S. Open that will promote the site, and print ads in obvious places like Men's Health and not-so obvious places like Vibe magazine (to attract the hip-hop crowd, which has long avoided tennis). "If novices go out to a park and try to learn tennis on their own, they're most likely not going to stay with the game," says Kurt Kamperman, president of the USTA's community-tennis program. "The website...