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...Third Man. Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Prague will pick you up in a Mercedes S-class limo to start off its "Perfect Kiss" package. Once there, go upstairs to your room for an 80-min. couples' aromatherapy massage and later enjoy a candlelit evening turndown with flowers, champagne, finger food and chocolates. If you want to leave your upgraded room, the hotel will pack a gourmet picnic basket, or you can have afternoon tea at the hotel. Feel free to lounge, with a late 6 p.m. checkout. $920 per night. Through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valentine's Deals That You'll Love | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

...Sound" jazzes up the pathos-imbued vocals of 1960s starlet Carrie Ku Mei with rock riffs and a break-beat exuberance worthy of Basement Jaxx. Others are simply inspired by the movies, like the cheeky "(21st Century) Char Siu Bao," which features present-day siren Gloria Tang singing in Mandarin to the tune of "Mambo Italiano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaw Thing | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...Pforzheimer House, said he is planning a doctorate in oriental studies at Oxford. “It’s still overwhelming at this point, just to get the opportunity to meet other people involved in the process,” Haddad-Fonda said. He has taken both Mandarin and Arabic classes at the College and has conducted research in Beijing and Cairo under Professor Xiao Yuan Liu, then a visiting professor at Harvard. Explaining his research interests in oriental studies, Haddad-Fonda said that in order to understand current Sino-Arab affairs, a historical perspective is necessary, especially with...

Author: By Michael A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Named Rhodes Scholars | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...will roll out Livescribe Desktop software for Mac, along with an upgraded Windows version, which includes a new handwriting-to-text translation tool. Speaking of which, the pen's software also includes translations for 21 different words - such as please, coffee, chocolate, water, bananas, beer and thanks - in Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic and Swedish. What else do you really need? Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Art of Writing Needs a Cool New Pen | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Tool. Struggling with a phrasebook and your clumsy pronunciation is so old school. You can now cross the language barrier with Lonely Planet's audio phrasebooks for mobile phones. Local linguists have recorded 600 phrases - "Do you have a room?" or "Can you recommend a bar?" - in 10 languages (Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Thai and Czech, with more promised soon). You simply play them through your phone's speakers. You can download the app onto iPhones (go to the App Store), BlackBerrys and any cell phone running the Java midp 2.0 platform or Windows Mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Airports' Fast-Access Debuts at Sports Arenas | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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