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Another summer, another Asian fundraising tour by Europe's top soccer clubs. Cashing in on the game's popularity in the region, Real Madrid and Manchester United between them last week kicked their way through Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing, racking up multimillion-dollar appearance fees along the way. Lesser teams, too, are parading before Asian fans. Rotterdam's Feyenoord went to work in Nanjing late last month, and even Sheffield United, from England's second division of clubs, rounded off its own three-game tour of China last week. The team's big attraction? Veteran Chinese star...
...scientists at Caltech, Yale and the Gemini Observatory. The researchers said the ball of rock and ice is the first object larger than Pluto to be found in the outer reaches of the solar system. won. lance armstrong, 33, in his last professional competition; a record seventh consecutive Tour de France; by 4 min. 40 sec. over Ivan Basso of Italy; in Paris. Of the race that defined his career, the world champion, who announced his planned retirement in April, said, "Vive le Tour, forever!" Charged. Vladimir Arutyunian, 27, ethnic Armenian who confessed to throwing a live grenade at George...
...local suq?all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells?including mummies?and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help sell vacations in Egypt. Wherever the gadget was trialed, bookings increased ?by up to 32% in one store. "People find it easier to imagine themselves on a holiday the more they know and see about a destination," says Douglas...
...local suq - all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells - including mummies - and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help sell vacations in Egypt. Wherever the gadget was trialed, bookings increased - by up to 32% in one store. "People find it easier to imagine themselves on a holiday the more they know and see about a destination," says Douglas...
Anthony Bourdain says this is not a food show: "It's about people, culture and places." Tomatillo, tom-ah-tillo--either way, it's a funny, foulmouthed culinary tour. (Of a French waiter, he asks, "Why is it that when he calls me 'Mon ami,' it sounds like 'A______'?") Fox is turning Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential into a sitcom this fall; here you can catch...