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By ROBIN FINN IT is late afternoon, and Momofuku Ssam Bar in the food-fixated East Village is idling in self-service mode waiting for the cocktail crowd — pretty much indistinguishable from the pierced and tattooed waiters — to saunter in. The lights are dim, Pearl Jam growls…

By EVAN RAIL IN the former East Berlin, directly across from the Marx-Engels-Forum — where immense statues of Karl and Friedrich seem to sit in stern judgment of the city — you might stumble across the Alt-Berliner Weissbierstube, a cozy cafe specializing in Berliner weisse,…

Great Space, Glass Floor-Through, Canyon Views By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN GRAND CANYON WEST, Ariz. — A visitor to these stark and imposing lands of the Hualapai Indians on the western rim of the Grand Canyon knows what sensation is being promised at the journey’s climax. After…

By C. J. HUGHES WHEN Albert Gallatin, the United States Treasury secretary under Thomas Jefferson, first dreamed up what would become, more than a century later, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, he envisioned a series of linked rivers, canals, bays and deep-water channels that would…

When Children Fly Alone, Who’s in Charge? By MICHELLE HIGGINS YOUR children are going to camp far from home this summer, but you can’t get off work or justify the expense of an extra plane ticket just to fly them there. Should you trust the airlines to take care of them if…

By HILARY HOWARD AT 20 weeks pregnant, Courtney Monardo, a 40-year-old processor for a mortgage company in Scottsdale, Ariz., was — to quote Madeleine Kahn in “Blazing Saddles” — “so tired.” “After work, I’d sit down on the couch, take a cat…

Amid Wheeler-Dealers, an Urban Playground By BARBARA KOH TEEMING with international high-rollers, glittery skyscrapers and construction cranes, China's sophisticated capital of business wouldn't seem a welcoming place for children at first glance. But it won't take long for parents to…

By ANDREW DOWNIE RIO de JANEIRO, May 14 — When the Portuguese winemaker João Santos first viewed his company’s new vineyard in Brazil, he was crestfallen. How could he ever produce wine anywhere nearly as good as that made in Europe? The trouble was the palm trees.…

By DEBRA A. KLEIN A toddler squeals with delight alongside a jumble of boulders, plunking herself thigh high into a sloshing emerald pool within inches of dozens of honking African penguins that squirt in and out of the water like large self-propelled watermelon seeds. This sparkling cove…

By CLIFFORD J. LEVY BACK when foreigners in Leningrad were treated almost like interlopers, shunted into dormitory-like hotels and pummeled with propaganda about the primacy of Soviet Man, the city was an improbable destination for families. No longer. Rechristened as St. Petersburg, the…