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By ANDREW FERREN MENTION Oporto, and one tends to think of well-fed British gents puffing postprandial cigars as they sip garnet-colored wine and solve the world's problems before rejoining the ladies in the drawing room. But what that word — the name of Portugal's second-largest…

By CHARLES PASSY ATLANTA has reinvented itself again. When the city last grabbed the national spotlight as host of the 1996 Summer Olympics, it had transformed itself into a pedestrian-friendly metropolis in full party mode. Now, it has re-emerged as a tourist destination with a…

By MICHELLE HIGGINS THE room at the Premier Hotel in Times Square looked like any other. But before I stepped inside, the hotel had gone to extraordinary lengths to purify it. In a seven-step process to cut down on bacteria, pollen, dust, dust mites and other possible irritants, everything…

By ROBIN POGREBIN Three decades after his Pompidou Center in Paris turned the architecture world upside down and brought him global fame, the British architect Richard Rogers has been named the 2007 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the profession’s highest honor. In the citation…

By CAROL VOGEL NAMING rights for a museum’s grand spaces are part of the deal for valued donors these days. But when the New Museum of Contemporary Art began its capital campaign for a $50 million building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the bathrooms were the first places to be…

By ALAN BURDICK The road to the forest of frankincense trees, on the Yemeni island of Socotra, is a rough one. From the passenger seat of a battered Toyota Land Cruiser, it looked like pure rock pile, on and on, up, down, over. Ahmed Said, my driver and guide, wrestled the wheel like a man…

By EAMON QUINN and ALAN COWELL BELFAST, Northern Ireland, March 26 — After years of mutual hostility and recrimination, the leaders of Northern Ireland’s dominant rival groups, Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams and the Protestant leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley, met today for their…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:35 p.m. ET AKDAMAR ISLAND, Turkey (AP) -- An ancient Armenian church, perched on a rocky island in a vast lake, has become a modern symbol of the divisions and fitful efforts at reconciliation between Turks and Armenians whose history of bloodshed drives…

By WENDY KNIGHT TUCKED into the Laurentian Mountains less than 80 miles north of Montreal, Mont Tremblant is a stunning Quebec ski town perched at the southern tip of Lake Tremblant. It somehow manages to blend the kitsch of a Disney-like ski resort, the elegance of a small cosmopolitan…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:03 a.m. ET KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian will scrap capital gains tax on property deals from April 1, the prime minister said Thursday as he announced a slew of pro-investment programs and incentives in a bid to boost the economy. Prime…