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...SOUTHEAST ASIA THE EASTERN AND ORIENTAL EXPRESS The sister train of the Venice Simplon allows you to explore the cultures of Southeast Asia as it carries you from Singapore to Bangkok via the Malay Peninsula. The train's interior and standard of service are similar to that of the Venice Simplon; what's different is the view?acres of tropical countryside, jungle terrain and rice paddies framed in the train's window. It's also a bit cheaper at $1,760 for a one-way ticket...
...environment back home. If you could set up automated lunar factories to extract the silicon and turn it into solar cells, says David Criswell, director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston, the moon could become a solar power station, beaming clean energy via microwaves back to Earth. "If you want to provide sustainable energy for 10 billion people by 2050," he says, "there is no other...
...official ID card. Piracy has become so normalized that it has its own bureaucracy. Two days later, a reporter bought Samurai in Shanghai. The shopkeeper, who introduced himself as Mr. Wang, displayed thousands of pirated DVDs--from Hitchcock to Schwarzenegger. The DVD cost $1. It arrived the day before, via pedicab. "If you want to wait a few months, you can come back for a better version," said Mr. Wang...
...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...
...four run a start-up prayer service through which students can e-mail, call or send a request via the juniors’ website asking them to bring their concerns before...