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...haven within a haven, 1,600-m-high Sapa, the express's northern destination, couldn't be more ideal. A former French-colonial hill station near the northern border with China, it has in recent years gone from a nearly forgotten outpost to a popular weekend getaway, partly due to the success of the luxury train. But Sapa still has almost no nightlife and hasn't even gotten around to assigning names to its streets. Surrounded by mountains, bamboo forests and dramatic rice terraces, the town is just as enticing as the journey?if you can tear yourself away from...
...Around the Senzoku train station in Tokyo's Meguro, strangers bowed and smiled to one another and shared special editions of newspapers published to commemorate the occasion. BABY GIRL! screamed headlines. Queues snaked around shops selling royal-birth specials. Red lanterns swayed and banners extolling congratulations hung from homes and buildings. Yasuhiko Teraza, 67, and Teruhiko Itoh, 69, both hightailed it here from across town when they heard about the birth on the TV news. "I think it's great that it's a girl," says Teraza, pulling at his gray felt baseball cap. "They've got female royalty...
...months ago Western countries were pummeling Putin for his crackdown on NTV, the independent TV station whose blatant criticism of the war in Chechnya infuriated the Kremlin. Now, silence...
...view the U.S. itself. "The security that America gave us, that sense of impenetrability, is gone," says Renato Pellizzari, a 44-year-old owner of a cappuccino bar in northwest Rome. "If it can happen to the U.S., it can happen anywhere," agrees Donell Ali, a 22-year-old station assistant for the London Underground. "I'm not scared of the I.R.A., but I'm concerned about safety now." Ali recognizes similar fears among the Underground's riders: "You can see it in their faces...
...security of Hoyts’ tremendous concession markup. The Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square, whose glass elevators tourists eager to zoom 45 stories above Manhattan have sardined into during countless past Thanksgivings, this year required room keys for entry into its lobby. Meanwhile, at Penn Station in New York City, no one without a train ticket could sit in the waiting area’s rows of grimy chairs...