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Guests at the Hotel Patou's brasserie on the fashionable P.C. Hooftstraat.
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By GISELA WILLIAMS
The Hotel Patou's namesake - the early-20th-century French fashion designer Jean Patou - might have appreciated the hotel's chic rooms on Amsterdam's most exclusive fashion and art row.
By JENNIFER CONLIN
According to environmentalists, carbon dioxide emissions are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to ecological problems on luxury liners.
CRUISE ISSUE
By PAUL SCHNEIDER
A winter cruise to the tiptop of Europe on the Arctic Sea sails past snowy fjords, towering mountains, northern lights and tiny fishing villages.
By SUZANNE MACNEILLE
With pristine beaches and exhilarating views, this tiny island is one of those famously paradisiacal places that actually lives up to the hype.
By ERIC ASIMOV
Few regions offer a wider selection of singular wines in the $10 to $20 price range - the sweet spot for great wine values - than Italy.
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Since the economic downturn, the delicate social rituals of the bull market era, when executives tried to outdo one another in expense-account one-upmanship, have been upended.
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By MATT GROSS
Six weeks after I dubbed Las Vegas the "Frugal Destination of 2009," Sin City still features plenty of money-saving deals. (All deals can fly out the window when you hit the casino floor, but you knew that.)
By SETH SHERWOOD
Since the Chinese invasion of Tibet – nearly 60 years ago – droves of refugees resettled in neighboring Nepal, transforming once-sparse Boudhanath into a bustling Little Lhasa.
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A handful of survivors of a plane that crashed in an Amazon jungle river managed to open an emergency door and swim to safety before the aircraft sank.
By MICHAEL TOUGIAS
Six spots along the coast of this Hawaiian island offer visitors an inexpensive aquatic adventure.
BITES
By KABIR CHIBBER
Mondo Konoba may be the best little restaurant that you may never reach. It is what eating in the Old World should feel like. Just be warned that you'll have to work for it.
By ERIC ASIMOV
Some Barolos can take years to come around, but the 2004 vintage is approachable right now and represents a superb return to form.
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The treasure hunters claiming to have found a legendary 18th-century British warship in the English Channel said they had confirmed its identity through a close examination of 41 bronze cannons.
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Mayor Oscar Goodman is determined to develop the area, and not even a recession will stand in his way.
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
A new mathematical model predicts that limited profiling would be a more efficient way to conduct airport screening for terrorists.
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
By FRANK BRUNI
The city's restaurants are talking sweet and reaching out in ways they didn't six or even three months ago.
ART
By HOLLAND COTTER
'The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York combines strangeness and beauty.
By GREG BREINING
Unlike other forms of fishing, spearing remains a game of deception and patience in which your attention can never waver.
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By NICHOLAS KULISH
For convenience, the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya hotel is hard to beat.
By DAMON DARLIN
The recipe for the Bacon Explosion -- a torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue sauce -- has racked up about 390,000 Web hits in a little over a month.
By ERIC ASIMOV
City Winery is a kind of interactive building, offering would-be urban winemakers the chance to help make their own. They need only part with from around $7,000 to almost $12,000 a barrel.
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
The Bocuse d'Or, the biannual global culinary contest named after the 82-year-old master Paul Bocuse, left, is considered by organizers as the Olympic gold medal of cooking.
PRACTICAL TRAVELER
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Beachfront rooms from $78 a night. All-inclusive vacations at 70 percent off. Five-night cruises for less than $250. These are just some of the deep discounts on offer.
By KIM SEVERSON
Dr. Thomas Frieden, New York City's health commissioner, is waging a campaign to lower the amount of sodium America eats.
ITINERARIES
By JOE SHARKEY
The hotel business has collided head-on with the bad economy and the tight credit market.
SURFACING
By KABIR CHIBBER
Stratford, a gray and unfashionable immigrant-heavy neighborhood in London, is going through a major makeover - and not everyone is happy about it.
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- OAGflights.com: Shows flight schedules for 1,000 airlines (including low cost carriers) serving 3,000 airports around the world.
- Opodo.com: Powered by Amadeus, offers more than 350,000 fares from 480 airline partners.
- Trailfinders.com and Airline-Network.co.uk: Cheap long-haul flights from the UK.
- Orbitz.com: A travel site created by American Airlines, Continental, Delta and Northwest.
- Flightbliss.com: Strategies and deals for buying first-, or business-class, tickets at a discount, or upgrading with frequent flier miles for U.S.-based travelers.
- Travel.com.au: Australian site offering round-the-world deals, stop-over packages, activity holidays and more.
- Skyscanner.net: Searches airline and travel sites for cheapest flights between European cities; to and from a wide range of regional airports; and worldwide from Britain.
- Flighttime.com: Online booking facility for executive aircraft charter, from more than 2,000 operators around the world.
- Bestairfares.ca: Discounted fares from Canada to Europe, Africa, Middle-East and Central Asia.
- TravelMaker.co.il: A useful option for travelers based in Israel to book travel abroad.
- Imperialconsultants.com: Montreal-based specialists in creative ticketing for first- and business-class travelers.
- Travelonweb.com: More than 1 million negotiated fares from France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland to destinations around the world.
- Asiatravelmart.com: A Malaysia-based site that offers flight and hotel bargains.
- Expedia.com: The Microsoft U.S. site links to sites in the UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy and Netherlands.
- Zuji.com: Based in Singapore for Asia-Pacific-based travel.
- Star-alliance.com: Check schedules and published fares and book flights for any of the Star Alliance partners for trips starting at most business destinations worldwide.
- Europebyair.com: A Flight Pass program intended for North Americans visiting Europe allows you to build your own itinerary and to book one-way travel.
- Travelocity.com: Airline, hotel and car rental information, scheduling and booking service from the Sabre global distribution system.
- Airlinequality.com: Skytrax airline research compares seat pitches and recommends the best seats to ask for on all the major carriers.
- Flatseats.com: Compares first- and business-class 'lie-flat' seat-beds and (nearly) horizontal 'angled flat-seats' along with 'sleep comfort ratings' on many carriers.
- Lovemyseat.com & Seatscorecard.com: A seat selection tool showing you the best leg room, recline and locations for over 80 airlines.
- Seatguru.com: Tells you which seats to choose and which to avoid on long-haul flights.
- Globalflight.net: Mileage junkies can check the status of more than 120 frequent flier programs and partner programs and plan their strategies.
- MaxMiles.com: MaxMiles Mileage Miner consolidates all your mileage accounts into one document.
- Webflyer.com: Comprehensive, up-to-date information on all frequent flier programs. More than 2,000 screens of news and resources in an easy-to-use format.
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