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...tables. Check out the MGM Grand's "Spring Fling" package, which gets you a room, a $35 credit for food or entertainment, two passes to Studio 54, 25% off spa services, two cocktails by the pool and $10 to spend at the slots - all for $75 per night. Book by April 30 for travel through Sept. 30. 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South...
...Street; 212-835-9600), Time (224 West 49th Street; 212-246-5252) or Stay (157 West 47th Street; 212-768-3700), pay only the cost of the room tax (6% in New York City) for the fourth night of a four-night stay. Rates begin at $199 a night. Book by March 31 for stays through April 15. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
Paying It Forward. For each three-night stay you book with the Sol Melia hotel group - which includes Paradisus Resorts in Costa Rica, ME by Melia Hotels in Madrid and Gran Melia Hotels & Resorts in Cancun - you'll get a free night's future stay at any property. Rates vary but start at about $199 to $279 per night. 888-95-MELIA...
...Twitter in the West, the BBS still prevails in China today as a relatively free place to express dissidence, while no such leeway is allowed in the traditional media. The same rigid censorship that drove millions of users to BBS and other online forums likely also ushered many book readers into cyberspace. "All books are required to go through three rounds of government-supervised editing, which could take months, before they can be published on the mainland," says Zhang. "Whereas online novels almost instantly reach the public at the click of a button...
...Although most BBS-based online novels started out free of charge, Shanda Literature's users now have to pay for the pleasure of online reading. But for most subscribers, the cost is minimal: they can access up to 75% of a book for free and pay only about 0.04 yuan (less than one cent) per 1,000 words for the rest of the book. In other words, it costs about one-tenth of the paperback price to read a book online. Right now, the company takes half of the readers' payment, and the other half goes into the writers' pocket...