Word: eiffel
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...smoked cod), smoked salmon with artichokes and a fruit dessert. That will set you back €80 per person, but it comes with a tiny mother-of-pearl caviar spoon. The only disadvantage to al fresco eating - other than possible bad weather in autumn - is uninvited guests. Near the Eiffel Tower with my daughter recently, a well-spoken but disheveled man approached our picnic and asked if we couldn't spare "a piece of bread, some salami and that piece of cheese over there." We made up a plate and threw in some melon to boot. After all, we were...
...citizens to take private trips to 27 European countries; in Paris. Up to 400,000 Chinese travel to France each year under business- or family-visit visas, but the number is expected to rise by 30% next year under the new rules. The first group planned to see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Printemps department store, the Moulin Rouge cabaret, the Palace of Versailles and cruise the Seine in a whirlwind two-day Paris stop before heading to Switzerland by train...
Maybe it's just as well that in those frightening days after Sept. 11 the nation didn't know what was in the CIA's files about terrorist plots to hijack a plane and fly it into the Eiffel Tower. Or about the secret memos that had been rocketing back and forth between intelligence agencies with titles like "Bin Laden Planning High-Profile Attacks" and "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly." Or that CIA chief George Tenet looked around in the summer of 2001 and saw that "the system was blinking red." Or that the FBI's chief of counterterrorism said...
Bojinka was only one of several hints of potential attacks involving aircraft, yet U.S. intelligence did not give the idea serious consideration. Others included an attempt by Algerian terrorists to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1994. A foreign intelligence service told U.S. agents in 1998 of al-Qaeda plans to hijack a plane and bargain for the release of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who was in a U.S. prison for his role in the first World Trade Center attack...
...your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj Al Arab's sumptuous suites, featuring bedrooms with naughty mirrors on the ceilings, marble bathrooms with Jacuzzis, bars stocked with champagne, and personal butlers for every whim...