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...chains, still trying to recover from the travel slowdown that followed Sept. 11, are experimenting with leitmotivs too. A newly opened Marriott venture in Walnut Creek, California, is a fitness freak's paradise. Renaissance ClubSport Hotel and Fitness Resort's 2.5-hectare campus offers basketball, volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, outdoor boccie courts, three swimming pools and kickboxing classes. All the guest rooms are outfitted with sets of 1-kg dumbbells, and power shakes are on the menu. And the Wild Horse itself is the product of a collaboration between the Sheraton and the Maricopas and Pimas. The $125 million...
...chains, still trying to recover from the travel slowdown that followed Sept. 11, are experimenting with leitmotivs too. A newly opened Marriott venture in Walnut Creek, Calif., is a fitness freak's paradise. Renaissance ClubSport Hotel and Fitness Resort's 6.5-acre campus offers basketball, volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, outdoor boccie courts, three swimming pools and kickboxing classes. All the guest rooms are outfitted with sets of 2-lb. dumbbells, and power shakes are on the menu. And the Wild Horse itself is the product of a collaboration between the Sheraton and the Maricopas and Pimas. The $125 million...
...costliness--it's the scene just down the road from the Beretta engraving studio, where the company is leading a push to partly automate the making of luxury firearms. Beretta has invested some $4 million over the past four years in computer-controlled machines to cut walnut stocks, cold-forge barrels, even fashion the upper curves of receivers (the guns' steel mid-bodies...
...anonymous side street aptly called Inkognito Terrasse, the bakery is marked by the long line snaking out the door - a cross-section of Oslo that, on my visit, included an elderly matron in a fur hat, a painter in splattered coveralls and young fashionistas. Most offerings, like the crusty walnut bread (delicious even without butter), are French, but the methods are artisanal Norwegian. As is the one must-taste - and don't pretend you don't know what it is. Go on, have a raisin bun. See what I mean...
...with a crumb that manages to be both airy and chewy at the same time. Daily staples such as the sourdough Concord Loaf, whole wheat Huron Loaf, thin-crusted Semolina and New England Brown Bread, made with molasses and dried blueberries, are supplemented by rotating specialty breads such as Walnut Bread, Olive Bread and Challah...