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62 THE HEMI Q&A:

BRADLEY COOPER The heartthrob talks about his Hangover and his Limitless future.

BY DAVID CARR

66 THE MEAL PLAN

Schools resort to trickery in the ageold quest to get kids to eat their fruits and veggies. And it works. BY EDWARD LEWINE

72 IN TREATMENT

We get poked, prodded and rubbed in the world’s best spas—and return to Palm Springs.

80 THREE PERFECT

DAYS: MEXICAN RIVIERA The region surrounding Puerto Vallarta is a haven of sun, sand and surf. BY JORDAN HELLER //

P H O T O G R A P H BY K E V I N J. M I YA Z A K I

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI

As the sun sets and you watch the hatchlings crawl into the ocean, you walk off and take one last swim in the Paciﬁc. 3PD | P. 80

Baby turtles at the Grupo Ecológico de la Costa Verde in San Pancho, Mexico.

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52 Sports March Madness is a time for reﬂection on NCAA basketball greats past. BY ADAM K. RAYMOND

57 Food & Drink Sample Peru’s local ﬂavors with a bite of nikkei cuisine and a splash of pisco. BY LAYLA SCHLACK

Peruvian potatoes are the food of kings.

11 CEO Letter A word from Jeff Smisek. 12 Voices A message to ﬂyers.

36 Hero Radio DJ Bill Ayres has been feeding the needy for 35 years. BY LAYLA SCHLACK

DISPATCHES 19 Notes From All Over Michael Flatley Lords it over New York City; Russian circus performers cut loose in Las Vegas; London restaurateurs revive the pub; a once-illegal dance is all the rage in Rio; helicopter parenting takes hold at Shanghai’s marriage market. DIRECTIONS 27 News Where to stay, what to see, when to go. 31 Goods 34 Whirlwind Five hours in Albuquerque. BY IRENE RAWLINGS

115 Route Maps and Terminal Diagrams 126 Crossword and Sudoku

14 Connections What’s new at United. 16 Wish You Were Here

ENTERTAINMENT AND INFORMATION 101 Movies, Television and Audio Programming

CULTURE 38 Tech Business cards get bested by a cuddly device called Poken.

137 Beverages & Food 140 In Transit Who’s sitting next to you?

BY ADAM K. RAYMOND

41 Arts Ray Davies, Red Riding Hood and what else to watch, read and listen to this month. 44 Whereabouts Monty Python’s Michael Palin goes Around the World in 80 Days, with stops at both poles. BY MIKE GUY

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47 Style Michael Andrews chose his love of suits over a career in law. BY MIKE ALBO

48 Industry Pinball machine creators hit the jackpot in China.

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ART DIRECTOR Christine Bower-Wright DESIGNER Ellie Clayman PHOTO EDITORS Erin Giunta, Moya McAllister

In the Loops Our January 2011 story “Wild and Woolly,” about guerrilla knitter and public artist Magda Sayeg was something the editors had been talking about for a while and were excited to see come together. Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number signed on to do the story and easily infiltrated Austin’s art scene. An added bonus is that we may have inspired a new knitter. Web commenter Dee Dee says, “I loved reading this story. It was intriguing, artsy, informative and inspirational. Bravo, Sloane Crosley. You captured the excitement and energy of the artist with your words and imagery and made me want to purchase knitting needles and start decorating my neighborhood.” It appears we also may have inspired a new biomimicry specialist and tardigrade enthusiast with our January Industry column, “Consider the Tardigrade.” “This article is so exciting,” says web commenter Shinji. “It has inspired me to look into switching my field of work from IT consulting to biomimicry, something that makes me feel passionate about what I am doing, which I cannot say right now. And I too would like to find a pet tardigrade.”

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BLYTHE COPELAND Copeland has contributed to Boston, New England Travel and TreeHugger.org. She says that growing up she chose Ms. PacMan over pinball (“On Tilt” page 48). “My cousins would always beat me,” she says. “But it’s hard to imagine pinball going away, which is why I thought this story was so interesting.”

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KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI Having recently shot for Bon Appetit, Men’s Health and Smart Money, the photographer was glad to escape to the Mexican Riviera (“Three Perfect Days,” page 80), but he admits he’s spoiled when it comes to travel. “I go to Hawaii fairly often,” he says. “My mom is from there, so I get to combine work and play.”

JOHN SELLERS “A year from now, seaweed wraps and cucumber facials will be as commonplace in my life as haircuts and trips to Target,” says the writer of his trip to Palm Springs (“In Treatment,” page 72). He’ll need them to recuperate from writing The Old Man and the Swamp, his book about snake-hunting that’s due out in May.

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Giving Back WELCOME ABOARD, and thank you for choosing the new United. On behalf of my more than 80,000 coworkers, I want you to know how much we appreciate your business. Our United and Continental subsidiary airlines are in the process of integrating operations as we work toward achieving single-carrier status from our government. As a result, you will see some changes over the coming months, and I think you’ll be pleased with the progress we’re making. A few things won’t change, though: We’ll continue to build a Working Together culture among coworkers, we’ll continue to focus on providing industry-leading service, and we’ll continue to be a good citizen of the communities we serve. We believe in building strong communities, and both our United

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and Continental subsidiaries have long and proud histories of giving back to the communities that support them. For the fourth year in a row, United has partnered with the American Cancer Society to raise funds for cancer research and to ﬂy families to treatment facilities across the country, and United customers have contributed nearly 200 million Mileage Plus Charity miles to the organization. We are proud that United coworkers will deliver 15,000 “Hugyou bears” to children battling cancer at hospitals across the country this month. Continental is proud to serve the March of Dimes as the Ofﬁcial Airline of the March of Dimes National Ambassador Program and as a national sponsor of the March for Babies for the sixth consecutive

year. We look forward to ﬂying this year’s ambassador, Lauren Fleming, and her family to many destinations throughout 2011, as she and her family tell their story and encourage others to support the March of Dimes. These are just a few of the many charitable organizations we support at the new United, and I’m proud of everything my coworkers do, both on the job and off, to make our world a better place. Thanks again for ﬂying with us today.

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Flight attendant Frank Dean, whose grandfather was a stunt pilot, was born with the “ﬂying gene.”

The Natural SAN FRANCISCO-BASED FLIGHT ATTENDANT FRANK DEAN IS A BORN PEOPLE-PLEASER. JUST ASK HIS PASSENGERS. // BY BURKE WATSON

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE awkward moments

most veteran flight attendants can identify with. Frank Dean was on a United Airlines flight from Tokyo to San Francisco—one of his first aboard a Boeing 747—and trying to get the hang of maneuvering food and beverage carts around the huge plane. As the inflight crew served hundreds of passengers, Dean bumped the cart into a Japanese customer’s seat. She and her husband were pleasantly surprised when he apologized in their native language. They were even more impressed when he met them after the plane landed and escorted them to the gate for their connecting flight. Before seeing them off, he gave them a box of chocolates and his contact information. “Stay in touch,” he said. And they did. Since that encounter about a decade ago, Masayuki and Yoshiko Mizoguchi have hosted Dean

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and his partner, United flight attendant Sabu Motoda, in their home, and they’ve stayed in San Francisco with Dean and Motoda. Dean’s natural ability to turn an airborne annoyance into a lasting friendship doesn’t come as a surprise to his coworkers. “What makes Frank so special is his focus on the customers,” says Peter Haralabopoulos, inflight base director at San Francisco International Airport. “He’s always reading about the industry, about United, whatever he can find that will help him answer customers’ questions and improve their traveling experience.” Dean learned Japanese while spending the summer with his father in Japan, and he has studied German. “I have surprised a few customers when I talked with them in their own language,” he says. “Even though I

prefer domestic ﬂights, I love using languages and anything else to connect with our customers.” Dean says he’s eager to be a part of the new enterprise that’s evolving with the merger of United and Continental Airlines. “We’re bringing together the two best airlines with the two best worldwide route structures,” he says. “Each of us is going to be an important piece of this global puzzle.” Haralabopoulos says Dean’s philosophy makes him a perfect ﬁt for the new United. “He focuses on helping people improve, whether he’s giving feedback to peers, to managers or to a hotel,” Haralabopoulos says. “That’s constructive criticism, but he also knows the value of a well-placed pat on the back. “Frank doesn’t act like one, but he really is a star.”

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ASK THE PILOT With Captain Mike Bowers

Southward Bound FLYING THE NEW UNITED TO MEXICO JUST GOT A LOT EASIER. BEGINNING IN MAY, getting to Mexico’s second-biggest city will be more convenient, as United begins daily nonstop service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Guadalajara (GDL). Continental Airlines, which already serves 30 destinations in Mexico— more than any other airline in the U.S.—will operate this service. The new route adds to United’s industry-leading service to our southern neighbor and complements our existing ﬂights to Guadalajara from Houston. No other carrier offers as many departures from the

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U.S. to Mexico, and we are regularly increasing our departure frequencies and adding routes. The new service will operate with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with seating for 160 customers (16 in ﬁrst class and 144 in economy). From LAX, United operates more departures to more destinations than any other carrier. CONTINENTAL ADDS NEW PARTNER IN MEXICO

Last month, Continental also began a partnership with Aeromar, Mexico’s most experienced airline. On February 1, Continental began putting

its code on Aeromar flights from Mexico City to 13 destinations in Mexico. This new codeshare agreement adds to our extensive service to Mexico and offers new options to our customers, permitting Continental OnePass members to accrue and redeem miles on all Aeromar-operated flights. In addition, Continental international first- and business-class passengers, Presidents Club members and Star Alliance Gold customers will gain access to Aeromar’s Salon Diamante lounge in Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport.

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NOTES FROM ALL OVER

NEW YORK CITY

“THEY’RE JUST BEAUTIFUL, the royal family is,” remarks Michael Flatley, the Lord of the Dance, as he holds court over lunch at Oceana, a posh Manhattan eatery. “I’ve performed privately at Buckingham Palace many times, and it’s lovely to see Camilla and Charles together.” He’s done command performances for royals as well, he says—him, Tony Bennett LUNCHING WITH A LORD OF THE DANCE. and Tom Jones. “Tom’s a very good friend of mine.” The Irish stepdancing impresario has been out of ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRAHAM ROUMIEU circulation since 2006, when he was felled by a mysterious illness, but lately he’s reemerged to promote his upcoming movie, Lord of the Dance in 3-D. “I think we were made for 3-D, and 3-D was made for us,” he says. “You have a lot of people enjoying their fifteen minutes of fame, especially here in the U.S., but we’ve been around for years, performing for heads of state, doing shows at the G8 summit. We’re really focused on family and tradition, and I think it’s exciting to bring that to the movie theater.” The film, it seems, has given Flatley visions of an expanded dance empire. He smiles dreamily, leans across the table and whispers, in a gentle Irish lilt that belies his Chicago upbringing, “I’m going to start a dance channel. It will have dance cartoons for the little ones, and then, like, jazzercise for the ladies who want to get fit—and we’ll have a movie night with black-and-white films!” Lately, though, Flatley’s mostly just been focused on his own family, namely his six-year-old son, Michael Jr. “Beautiful little guy. Ach jeez, I just love him,” Flatley says, his eyes reflecting his teal scarf. “I don’t know if he’ll dance, and I don’t care. I’m just out here making the money for him and his mom.” His movie is set for release on—when else?—St. Patrick’s Day.—LAYLA SCHLACK

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LAS VEGAS

IRON CURTAIN CALL

Raman Stsepaniuk, 32, sits at a bar in the middle of the Circus Circus Hotel & Casino—with a family of trapeze artists ﬂinging themselves around over his head—and recalls his ﬁrst impressions of Sin City. For one, he hails from Belarus, a place of long and dark winters, so life in the desert meant getting used to a startling amount of light—both natural and otherwise. “I just looked at all those lights on Las Vegas Boulevard,” he says, “and I thought, ‘We only had two streetlamps!’” Plus, he didn’t arrive in town on the back of an elephant, which was a real change for him. Stsepaniuk, an acrobat and former elephant rider who works in the Le Rêve show at Wynn Las Vegas, is one of thousands of former members of the worldrenowned Moscow Circus

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who now call Vegas home. Russian circus performers began arriving in town in 1990, when artists from the communist bloc were ﬁrst allowed to work in the West. They made a big impression. “That level of acrobatics was unknown on the Strip,” says former Las Vegas mayor Jan Jones, now a senior vice president for Caesars Entertainment. Today, many perform in big shows like Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère, while others are traveling artists who use Vegas as a base because of its tight-knit circus community. As for Stsepaniuk, he’s since adapted to his desert surroundings. “I can be at the ocean in four hours, or play some golf before going to work at night,” he says. It’s an American life like any other, save all the hurtling 65 dizzying feet in the air, above a small pool of water before a crowd of thousands. —KIM PALCHIKOFF

Adrian Larner leans with one hand on the bar and contemplates his nearly empty pub, the Calthorpe Arms in London’s Bloomsbury district. He’s been running it for 21 years, long enough to remember a time when neighbors gathered in their local pubs with a near-religious frequency. “Pubs were the center of the community,” he says. “They’re where you would go to meet old friends and new and chat them up.” Shifting social habits, rising real estate prices, and competition from cheap supermarket beer are combining to drive some 29 English pubs out of business each week, threatening a tradition as closely associated with the national culture as greasy breakfasts and monarchy. “It’s one thing Britain is good at,” jokes Jason Tinklin, who runs the Star Tavern in London’s exclusive Belgravia section. Enter the movement to preserve the English pub. Called the Campaign for Real Ale, or CAMRA, it produces the annual Good Beer guide, which supports the most authentic of the nation’s 60,000 pubs by steering tipplers to the best, as judged by the association’s rank and ﬁle. The group also advocates for “real ale,” a traditional beer usually aged in wooden casks, not kegs, and poured from hand cranks, not taps, at slightly cooler than room temperature. Real ale’s revival has produced a boom in microbreweries. So successful is the campaign that some national beer distributors have begun opening faux-authentic pubs to get in on the craze. Tony Jerome, an ofﬁcer of CAMRA, smiles about this over a pint at a tiny pub near the organization’s headquarters north of London. “There are some things,” he says, “that you just can’t re-create.”—JON MARCUS

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RIO DE JANEIRO

C-FUNK ALL STARS

On a cool night in November, a few hundred people gather outside Rio’s Fundição Progresso for the launch of the soundtrack to Elite Squad 2, a movie about the social and political problems of the city’s notorious favelas—all set to the beat of once-outlawed carioca funk music. Carioca funk, which fuses bombastic hip-hop with Brazilian beats, was born in the favelas in the ’80s and has long been controversial for its gritty, at times explicit, portrayal of life in the slums. That all began to change in September 2009, when the government ofﬁcially recognized it as a Brazilian cultural movement, rather than an objectionable

ghetto byproduct, and legalized the raucous and long-banned favela dance parties it inspired. “The funk is more than just music; it is a way to open up a dialogue,” says Leonardo Pereira Mota, better known as MC Leonardo. An 18-year veteran of the music scene, he’s the president of the Association of Professionals and Friends of Funk, which helped lead the push

to legitimize the music. Nowadays, he and other DJs hold dances in paciﬁed favelas, with a strong police presence to ensure that the events go off without any trouble. A little after midnight, MC Leonardo and his brother come onstage to perform their popular single “Tá Tudo Errado” (“Everything Is Wrong”). Hundreds of fans sing along, pushing

closer to the stage. Vinicius George—a 45-year-old former police chief who now coordinates the ofﬁce of Marcelo Freixo, the state deputy who signed the law legitimizing funk—is dancing to the beat. “It is a big accomplishment that funk now is gaining a wider audience, outside the favela,” he yells, grinning, over the music. —KATYA GUBAREV

The Shanghai marriage market in Renmin Park, in the city center, is not as glamorous as it sounds. For a start, no one here is under 50 years old, nor has anyone made the slightest effort to doll him- or herself up. That’s because the 200 or so people milling around aren’t looking for spouses for themselves, but for their kids. “I just wish my daughter could ﬁnd a man,” sighs Mrs. Yu, a very earnest middle-aged woman. “But she is too busy. And of course her standards are very high.” Each parent carries a placard listing his or her child’s better qualities: height, salary, even travel experience. Many don’t bother posting a photo—they know what they want, and good looks don’t place very high on the list. The parents’ anxieties are understandable. In their day, people married on average by age 24. But in modern Shanghai it’s increasingly common for women to hold off on marriage to focus on a career. Plus, the notoriously strong-willed Shanghainese girls do not enter into matrimony lightly. Since it often means giving up work, many won’t even date a man if he doesn’t hold the promise of at least a house. (At the same time, no one wants to be sheng nu, or left on the shelf.) Matchmakers work the crowd, brokering connections between parents. They charge a small commission for their services and expect an invitation to the wedding. All have tales of successful unions. That’s what keeps people like Mrs. Yu going. “I’m just lending a hand,” she says, denying she’s being pushy. “I’ve got time. My daughter doesn’t. And, of course, it’s she who goes on the date…I can’t force her.” And then the pragmatic lady returns to perusing the vital statistics.—SIMON LEWIS

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MIAMI // Watch models on the runway by day and dance the nights away at the Miami Beach International Fashion Week. miamifashionweek.com

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BARCELONA // If you need an excuse to hang out on the Spanish coast, check out the Sitges Car Rally, a race featuring cars built before 1924. rallyesitges.com SNAP APPLE // Bring the Big Apple home with New York: A Photographer’s City, a new book that offers 350 different takes on the fabled, photogenic megalopolis. More than 100 artists fanned out over all ﬁve boroughs, capturing cityscapes, stilllifes and vignettes throughout New York’s never-sleeping streets. rizzoliusa.com FOR A SONG

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. While Fort McHenry is best known as the birthplace of “The StarSpangled Banner,” it was also crucial in preventing Maryland from seceding. This month, the fort once known as the Baltimore Bastille will be a bastion of historical education when the new visitors center gets a multimedia exhibit. nps.gov/fomc

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CALENDAR APRIL OH DEER // With the mercury rising and the Salt Lake region celebrating yet another year of record snowfall, the St. Regis Deer Valley in Deer Valley, Utah, is offering skiers an unmatched spring skiing experience. Ski valets will have your equipment ready in the morning—so you can hit the slopes right out of the hotel—and they’ll be there to take it off your hands at the end of the day, when you pay a visit to JeanGeorges’ J&G Grill. starwoodhotels.com/stregis

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The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong— occupying a brand new, 118-story skyscraper—opens for business this month with 312 guest rooms overlooking the harbor, a rooftop bar, a chocolate tea room and four other dining venues, plus an ESPA brand spa.

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wearing character with a round head, tiny body and four-ﬁngered hand. After the novelty wore off, Ford started putting her Poken to use, touching its palm to the palms of other guests’ Pokens, thereby performing what the company calls a “high 4.” Each

“As soon as I got home, I plugged my Poken into my laptop, and I had immediate access to everyone I just met,” Ford says. “That’s when I knew this technology could have a lot of applications for our company.” Stéphane Doutriaux, a 34-year-old

“It was just so cute!” enthused Navteq’s Catherine Ford of her ﬁrst Poken. Now she’s hooked. high 4 allows the devices to exchange an encrypted code by using a low-energy radio frequency enabled by Near Field Communication technology. That code holds the key to a person’s digital life, which is revealed when a Poken is plugged into a USB port on a computer and a user’s proﬁle launches. There, a timeline of all the new friends they’ve Pokened appears, containing links to whatever social networks they’ve attached to their Pokens.

who earned his MBA in Lausanne, Switzerland, conceived of the product after coming to terms with his inability to master business cards. “I don’t know what to do with them,” he says. As a newly christened MBA and a seven-year veteran of the corporate world, Doutriaux knew that business cards couldn’t be done away with completely, so he set out to revolutionize them. “The goal was to be able to easily pick up digital

information about the people I met and have a complete view of their online proﬁles,” Doutriaux says. That means no more struggling to ﬁnd people on LinkedIn, friending the wrong person on Facebook or not realizing that a potential client is huge on Twitter. Today, Poken’s biggest clients are corporations like IBM and Microsoft, which pass the devices out at conferences, networking events and other trade shows. Catherine Ford from Navteq was so convinced by her Poken demo that she brought it to her company too, distributing the little doohickeys at a developer conference in Silicon Valley. The presence of Poken at Navteq’s booth created the most prized quality at a trade show: buzz. “It’s the perfect device to get people talking,” Ford says. ADAM K. RAYMOND, a regular contributor, prefers the ninja Poken.

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KITCHEN CONFIDANT • None other than Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain—chef, author and host of the peerless food/travel show No Reservations—have bowed down to the narrative mastery of Blood, Bones & Butter, by chef Gabrielle Hamilton, owner of NYC’s excellent eatery Prune.

STARS AND STIPE • R.E.M. enlisted help from the likes of Patti Smith and Eddie Vedder for their new record, Collapse Into Now—which, judging from the track “It Happened Today,” stands as evidence that though gray at the temples, the Georgia band can still stand toe to toe with virtually anyone in rock.

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arts 6 HIGH CRIME • In Rodin’s Debutante—Chicago novelist Ward Just’s spare and unﬂinching novel about a sculptor coming of age in the city’s rough-and-tumble Southside in the 1950s—the long-buried memory of a hideous crime sets off a feverish hunt for a killer. MARCH 1 6

YOU’RE KILLING ME • The Killing, a surprisingly crisp AMC thriller from the brains behind CBS’s procedural Cold Case, is based on the hit Danish series Forbrydelsen and centers on the investigation into a single murder in the Seattle area. As star Mireille Enos (Big Love) discovers, everyone has a secret. APRIL 3 7

FRESH EYRE • It’s an unwritten law that Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre must be made into a movie every ﬁve years or so. In director Cary Fukunaga’s spooky adaptation, Mia Wasikowska plays the mousy yet haunting governess in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), and befriended by Mrs. Fairfax (Judi Dench). MARCH 11 8

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10 9 KNOW-IT-ALL • Twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, science writer James Gleick has an enviable talent for making even the densest scientiﬁc history readable. In The Information: A History. A Theory. A Flood, see if the man who popularized “The Butterﬂy Effect” can do for information theory what he did for chaos theory. MARCH 1 9

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SWEDE RELEASE • Best known for their 2007 hit “Young Folks,” a song so catchy you needed an exorcist to get it out of your head, Sweden’s Peter Bjorn & John drop their sixth album, Gimme Some, this month. After two experimental releases, they’ve returned to their trademark stripped-down pop sound. MARCH 29 10

WHEN YOU THINK of ideal duet partners for Ray Davies, the former Kinks frontman, James Hetfield from Metallica isn’t the first guy that leaps to mind. Yet in 2009 Metallica contacted Davies to see if he’d be willing to play “You Really Got Me” with them at a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden. Davies, who had been a solo act since The Kinks disbanded in 1996, did it, liked it and decided to do more. On April 5, he releases See My Friends, a collection that pairs him with Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Lucinda Williams, Spoon, Frank Black, John Bon Jovi and more, on 14 Kinks tunes. “It was quite a learning curve for me,” says the famously difficult songwriter. “The secret was to know when to stand back and let them work.” When Jackson Browne, a Southern Californian, came in to do the intensely London-centric “Waterloo Sunset,” Davies all but handed him the reins. “I just sort of let him flow through it and sing it the way he wanted to. Then I put in my ten cents. I said, ‘Everybody’s heard me sing the first verse. You sing the first verse.’” Most of the tracks were cut in London, but if someone couldn’t come to Davies, the 66-year-old went to them. This included a trip to New Jersey to record “Better Things” with Springsteen. They did the track in 30 minutes, and then spent the next four hours just hanging out. “We had a lot to talk about,” Davies says. “It was a great afternoon.”

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The Places I Go: Michael Palin THE MONTY PYTHON ALUM AND TRAVEL SHOW HOST CLIMBS EVEREST AND KICKS BACK. “When I was a young buck growing up in the north of England, I never traveled, but I read National Geographic cover to cover. I was fascinated by exploration, but I never expected I would do it. Suddenly, just as Python had, like the parrot, completely deceased, out of the blue comes an offer to host this BBC series, Around the World in 80 Days. “I see a lot more of the world now, and both poles. I climbed a little way up Everest, and I stayed in pretty grim guesthouses along the way, but through a cracked pane I could see the tip of the mountain. I got a ﬂavor of what it must have been like for Mallory and Hillary. “As far as cities go, I like ones that have slightly more bustle, like Cairo and Istanbul. Paris is my favorite. I always stay at a little place on the south bank called d’Aubusson. It’s got a very old feel, like me. And there always seems to be jazz piping in from somewhere. I like that.”

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An American Tailor MICHAEL ANDREWS LEFT BEHIND A LEGAL CAREER TO OUTFIT MANHATTAN IN AFFORDABLE BESPOKE SUITS.

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when you can’t stop doing it, even on vacation. For seven years Michael Andrews was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer on Wall Street, but whenever he got a break, he “would go to Thailand or India and try out different tailors,” he says. “After five or six, my travel partners started getting a little annoyed.” So in 2006, Andrews left Wall Street, took a few classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology and opened Michael Andrews Bespoke—a reasonably priced custom-tailoring boutique in lower Manhattan for guys who aren’t Gordon Gekko (suits start at $895). “I don’t care if you’re a construction worker or a tech guy. You still need one good suit,” Andrews says. He measures every client himself, offers fabrics from fine mills like Zegna and Dormeuil, and works primarily with two factories in China to keep costs down. A wide range of guys in all shapes and sizes come through the door, including some athletes. “There’s a former center for one of our local basketball teams who is walking around in a whole lot of powder blue fabric,” says Andrews with a smile. “We try to give style advice, but if that’s what they want, that’s what they want.” It turns out a lot of men want their suits made by a former “suit.” The boutique recently moved into a new 4,200-square-foot space in a secluded Lower Manhattan alley. The new shop has a vintage bar that gives it a speakeasy vibe. (Note: “Make sure you stay sober through the whole fitting.”) Andrews’ success is a sign that fine tailoring is catching on with American men. As for his own collection, “I have about fifty suits. I should probably have more, but I have a one-in, one-out policy.”

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On Tilt THE ONCE-MIGHTY PINBALL INDUSTRY IS DYING. CAN CHINA SAVE IT? BY BLYTHE COPELAND // ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN SANCHEZ IT’S FRIDAY NIGHT IN BEIJING, and the arcade is teeming with young people. A half-dozen players hone their hoops skills at a row of pop-a-shots, while others gather around two players battling it out at the wildly popular King of Fighters game. It’s a lively scene straight out of 1980s America, only it’s happening on the top ﬂoor

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of a shining high-rise mall in China. It’s happening all over China, in fact. And while the sudden popularity of arcades in the emerging economic powerhouse—about 10,000 are currently open, with another 10,000 or so on the way—is a sign of China’s growing prosperity, for a small group of enthusiasts in the U.S., the boom

represents something even more signiﬁcant: the last hope for the fastfading American pastime of pinball. Since the game was invented in Ohio in 1871, pinball has had its share of tilts and jackpots. For decades, it was banned in many cities as a form of gambling. Then a 26-year-old pinball phenom named Roger Sharpe

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landed one nearly impossible shot in front of a room full of New York City councilmen to prove that pinball relied on skill, not chance. After that, it was game on. By 1980, the coin-operated game industry was worth $6 billion a year—more than the ﬁlm industry— with pinball accounting for around 85 percent of the revenue. As the decade progressed, pinball survived the video game invasion and went on to peak in the early ’90s, when a handful of companies worldwide produced a combined 100,000 units each year. Two decades later, the industry has, well, tilted. Manufacturers have abandoned the classic game for more

GAME ON! Pinball may be new to the Chinese market, but video games are booming. George Petro, founder of Illinois-based developer Play Mechanix, does 22 percent of his business in China, up from zero percent in 2007. So what games are the Chinese playing?

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Similar to America’s über-popular Dance Dance Revolution, only here players use their hands instead of their feet to execute dance moves. It’s popular enough that a national We Dancing Online competition was held in China last summer. FISH SEASON

While Chinese arcadegoers haven’t warmed to the stateside smash Big Buck Hunter, they are drawn to Fish Season, in which players shoot nets into a simulated ocean to try to catch ﬁsh. This would seem to require some kind of skill, but, says Petro, “As far as I have been able to tell, catching is completely random.”

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lucrative pursuits like video arcade games and casino games like video slot machines. Pinball production has dropped by 95 percent since its peak, with only about 5,000 machines produced annually and all by one company: Stern Pinball in Chicago. “Back in the nineties, pinball was still used in bars and restaurants,” says Jody Dankberg, Stern’s director of

for a new product to stake out a large enough footprint to grab attention. For another, Stern needs to ﬁnd themes that appeal to the overseas players. The usual pop culture–focused games, like Avatar and Iron Man, aren’t sure winners. “We might love Batman over here, but I don’t know how big Batman is in China,” says Dankberg. Perhaps most critically, pinball is

“The game might be a dying art,” says one retailer. “Unless people really push, it’s going to slip right off the radar.” Enter China. marketing. “It used to be you’d go to the pizza place and play pinball while you were waiting. Now you play Angry Birds or check Facebook or post on Twitter.” These days, Stern’s machines, which retail between $3,700 and $6,000, sell mostly to collectors. “The collecting core is still out there,” says Todd Tuckey of TNT Amusements, an inhome video game and pinball retailer in Pennsylvania, “but the game may be a dying art.” Tuckey usually sells 30 to 40 pinball games during the month of December alone; during the 2010 holiday season he sold zero. “Unless people really push and pinball gets to be popular again,” he says, “it’s going to slip right off the radar.” Enter China. Though America has lost its zeal for pinball, Stern is hoping to stoke a passion for the game among members of China’s growing middle class. But translating the company’s passion for pinball—its 150 or so employees are required, per orders from CEO Gary Stern, to play the game for 30 minutes per day—will be a major challenge. For one thing, the competition is intense. Chinese arcades are big, clean, well-lit affairs, holding upward of 600 games each, making them about three times the size of your local Dave & Busters. These places often contain rows of as many as 30 of the same game, making it tough

more complicated than most coinoperated video games. It takes a lot more practice and it’s harder to master. Stern had this in mind as it shipped its ﬁrst batch of games to China in December: 300 NBA pinball machines with a familiar theme and uncomplicated gameplay. “For someone just getting to know pinball, the NBA game is nice and simple,” says Dankberg. “Everyone can understand that concept.” Time will tell whether the Chinese embrace pinball the way Americans did back in the day, but Sharpe, who made the shot that legalized pinball in 1976 and is now part of the International Flipper Pinball Association, believes that even the simplest pinball machine is well equipped to compete with modern systems. “There’s so much said about the level of interactivity you have with the Wii and the Kinect. With pinball, you have a completely tactile, interactive environment,” says Sharpe. “For the Chinese, I have to believe that discovering something like this is really going to be a phenomenon. I think the Chinese are going to be mesmerized by it.” Freelance writer BLYTHE COPELAND wonders what the training regimen is for a We Dancing Online competition.

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We All Shine On OR DO WE? THESE FIVE NCAA HOOPS HEROES OFFER A GLIMPSE AT LIFE AFTER MARCH MADNESS. // BY ADAM K. RAYMOND The ball is tipped / And there you are / You’re running for your life / You’re a shooting star. HEARING THOSE WORDS blare from the

TV means three things are happening: No. 1: Luther Vandross is singing “One Shining Moment,” the anthem that CBS uses to commemorate the end of the NCAA Tournament. No. 2: A group of sweaty players and an old guy in a double-breasted suit are climbing a

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ladder with a pair of scissors. No. 3: I’m crying. Like millions of Americans, I’m a sucker for the over-the-top drama that is the NCAA Tournament. Every March, I put my life on hold and grab a bottomless tub of guacamole. But the Final Four isn’t about me; it’s about the players. For the vast majority of them, this tourney is the end of their basketball careers, ﬁnished before they even start. Sure, some will

ORDER IN THE COURT From left, Bryce Drew, Carmelo Anthony, Christian Laettner, Sean May and Keith Smart.

go to the NBA and others will play pro ball overseas, but most will enter the workaday world of the same schmucks (like me) who once cheered them on. The tournament is that aforementioned shining moment. So with March just a couple weeks from Madness, let’s check back with ﬁve of the shiniest NCAA Tournament players to ﬁnd out what

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KEITH SMART SHINING MOMENT: Hoosiers love Larry Bird, but Larry Bird didn’t make “The Shot.” Keith Smart did. With ﬁve seconds left in the 1987 NCAA championship game, the crafty Indiana University guard buried a jump shot from the left wing to give his team a one-point win and cement his status as Indiana’s most unlikely sports legend. A Louisiana native who went unnoticed out of high school, Smart spent time at a community college in Kansas before landing on Bobby Knight’s Indiana squad. Once in Bloomington, he was a little-noticed contributor. Then, with that 16-foot jumper, which gave IU its ﬁfth national championship, Smart became the face of March Madness. WHERE HE IS NOW: After two years in Indiana, Smart went on to the NBA, where he logged a grand total of 12 minutes in two games, scoring two points in his entire NBA career. Then Smart—like a much less desirable LeBron James—“took his talents” to Canada, the Philippines, France

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BASKETBALL LIVES From left, Carmelo Anthony at his 2010 wedding to LaLa

Vazquez; Keith Smart, right, as head coach of the Golden State Warriors; and the Laettner family at the U.S. Olympics Hall of Fame ceremony in 2004.

and Venezuela before returning to the NBA to coach. After seven years as an assistant, Smart landed his ﬁrst head coach gig when the Golden State Warriors chose the 46-yearold to lead the team into a new era of relevance. Still, “The Shot” follows him everywhere. Each March, when it’s replayed by CBS and ESPN Classic, Smart says he hears less about the heroic jumper and more about the tiny shorts he’s wearing.

CHRISTIAN LAETTNER SHINING MOMENT: Forget Color Me Badd—1991 belonged to Christian Laettner. His Duke Blue Devils defeated Kansas for the NCAA Championship that year, and Laettner was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. Better remembered, though, is his last-second jumper in the Elite Eight the following season. Down one point to Kentucky with 2.1 seconds left in overtime, Laettner took a full-court pass from Grant Hill, dribbled once and hit a buzzer-beating jumper to send his team to the Final Four. It’s regarded as one of the greatest college basketball games of

all-time—unless you live in Kentucky. WHERE HE IS NOW: Following his dream game, Laettner joined the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and won a gold medal for keeping the bench warm for legends like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. He was then drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves and went on to be a solid but never spectacular player on six NBA teams. He retired in 2005 and began working full time at a community development company called Blue Devil Ventures, but he still found time in 2009 to recreate his shot for a Vitamin Water ad. They hated it in Kentucky.

BRYCE DREW SHINING MOMENT: Every college basketball fan has a special place in his heart for Cinderellas, those plucky teams that make improbably deep runs into the tournament. In 1998, Valparaiso was the lucky lady, thanks in large part to head coach Homer Drew’s son Bryce and the threepointer he nailed to lift his 13th-seeded Crusaders over the fourth-seeded University of Mississippi Rebels in the

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first round. Drew’s shot, which some Indiana natives claim is the real “The Shot,” combined the two things college basketball fans love most—buzzerbeaters and underdogs—in one of the tournament’s shiniest moments ever. WHERE HE IS NOW: After teaching the country that Valpo is a college in Indiana and not a brand of dog food, Drew became the school’s first-ever first-round pick in the NBA draft. During his six years in the NBA, he jumped between the Rockets, Bulls and Hornets, filling the three-pointspecialist role for each. In 2004 his NBA career came to an end, and, like any good coach’s son, he jumped into coaching himself. Six years later, Drew is still at Valpo, where he’s been honored as one of the 150 Most Influential Persons in the university’s history. That’s the power of a “shot.”

CARMELO ANTHONY SHINING MOMENT: The man they call Melo was anything but as he led the Syracuse Orange to their ﬁrst NCAA championship in 2003. Carmelo Anthony ripped through the bracket, scoring 33 points against Texas in the Final Four (a tournament record for a freshman) and 20 in the ﬁnal game against Kansas. After third-seeded Syracuse and coach Jim Boeheim lifted the trophy, Anthony lifted

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his own as the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. WHERE HE IS NOW: Feeling no urge to repeat, Anthony left Syracuse after his freshman year to enter the NBA draft, where he was chosen third overall by the Denver Nuggets. He excelled once again as a rookie phenom, averaging 21 points per game. Since then, he’s been an NBA All Star three times, averaged at least 20 points per game each season and picked up a little hardware on the side—a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics and a gold in Beijing in 2008. After the 2006 season, he signed a ﬁve-year, $80 million contract extension with the Nuggets. But his biggest achievement occurred in 2010, when his wedding to MTV VJ LaLa Vazquez aired on VH1.

SEAN MAY SHINING MOMENT: Few teams have come into a season as highly touted as the 2005 North Carolina Tar Heels, and center Sean May was the core of that hype. By the time the trumpets blared on 2005’s “One Shining Moment” montage, it was clear why: UNC won its fourth NCAA championship thanks to May and his 26-point, 10-rebound effort in the Tar Heels’ win over Illinois. With little left to achieve after that, May bolted for the big time. WHERE HE IS NOW: Drafted 13th overall in the 2005 NBA Draft, May is still best remembered for his days in baby blue. His pro career has taken him to Charlotte, Sacramento and New Jersey, but with little success. After a stress fracture last summer caused the Nets to cut him, May got a call from a place no ﬁrst-round draft pick ever wants to hear from: Europe. In December, he signed with a Turkish team, where he’ll play alongside Lynn Greer, who had a few shining moments of his own in 2001, when he led the 11th-seeded Temple Owls to the Elite Eight.

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PERU’S POTATOES COME IN A MOST REGAL SHADE. // BY LAYLA SCHLACK

REGAL MAY NOT BE THE FIRST WORD that comes to mind when you think of potatoes, but in

Peru, the tubers are colored a bright shade of purple inside and out—a look that earned them a place on the plates of the Incan kings for whom they were specially cultivated. These beautiful little ﬁngerlings have a creamy texture, but they’re ﬁrm enough to stand up to baking or roasting. And for the health-conscious, purple potatoes are colored by the same enzyme that gives blueberries their tint, which means they’re chock-full of the same antioxidants. These “Gems of the Andes” are typically harvested January through April, so brush off a couple for papa a la huancaina (potatoes with spicy cheese sauce), and eat like a king.

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SOUR GRAPES A look at pisco—beyond the sour.

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COOL FUSION Nikkei chef Mitsuharu Tsumaru at his restaurant, Maido.

Something Fishy FOODIES ARE FALLING FOR NIKKEI—JAPANESE-PERUVIAN FUSION CUISINE—HOOK, LINE AND SINKER. // BY LAYLA SCHLACK IN 1899, A SHIP carrying 800 Japanese

laborers docked in Peru. Like so many immigrants, these newcomers struggled to adapt to their new culture (and the Peruvians, it should be said, didn’t exactly welcome them with open arms), but in time the transplants and their adopted countrymen found common ground in one key area: food. Along with rice and squash, the Japanese and Peruvian diets feature ﬁsh—and lots of it. From that

commonality, a new cuisine evolved. Now there are about 90,000 people of Japanese descent living in Peru, and nikkei food—the fusion of Japanese and Peruvian—is everywhere. Emily Shaw is an English and Canadian expat who runs a company called Eat With Me that takes visitors on food tours in and around Lima. “I always introduce some comida nikkei to my groups, because it’s such an amazing part of the culinary

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scene here,” she says. One of the best restaurants is Maido, a high-end place that opened about a year ago. Maido’s chef, Mitsuharu Tsumaru, is best known for fusions like miso with Peruvian potatoes, pork belly with pumpkin and a sake sauce, and of course, the original nikkei dish, tiradito: a hybrid of ceviche and sashimi in which the ﬁsh is sliced thin and served in citrus sauce. Aside from the requisite trip to Maido, Shaw likes to stay off the beaten path at local cevicherias, like Ah! Gusto, a cevicheria in Callao, the coastal

“I love taking people to little huariques so they can really taste how nikkei is everywhere.” district west of the city proper. There, the nikkei influence comes through in the stuffed peppers with soyinfused sauce. Another favorite is El Encuentro de Otani, for nikkei-infused ceviches like snails in soy sauce and chili, and tacu tacu (rice and bean patties) with shrimp. “I love taking people to the little huariques so they can really taste how nikkei is everywhere,” Shaw says. “Mitsuharu told me a great story about how the Japanese influenced Peruvian technique. With ceviche, Peruvians thought it needed to sit for at least an hour so that the citrus could cure the fish all the way through. When the Japanese started working in the restaurants, they said ‘But the fish is so much more delicious raw!’ And now ceviche is made to order.” Indeed, ceviche’s made to order all over the world these days, with tiradito hot on its heels. And with nikkei joints popping up in Miami, Madrid and New York, don’t be surprised if you find ají pepper in your maki or yuzu in your ceviche next time you hit up a trendy eatery. It’s been a long time coming.

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66 THE MEAL PLAN One man has discovered the trick to getting kids to eat healthy. By Edward Lewine

72 IN TREATMENT A rundown of the world’s best spa remedies—and a return to Palm Springs.

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THE HEMI Q&A: BRADLEY COOPER

DAVID CARR

After hitting it big with The Hangover, the Georgetown grad plays a guy who discovers a pill that unlocks the limitless potential of his brain (sans tiger). ILLUST R AT I O N BY

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YOU WANT TO HATE BRADLEY COOPER. He’s devilishly handsome and a graduate of both the Actors Studio and the honors English program at Georgetown University, where he was also— you guessed it—on the rowing team. He’s in amazing shape, speaks fluent French and, by the way, starred in The Hangover, which grossed just south of half a billion dollars. But here’s the problem: He’s nice. Not movie-star nice but human-being nice. When we spoke in January, he was in New York at the Greenwich Hotel on his 36th birthday. But instead of the customary big night out (clubs, models, bottle service and so forth), he was marking the occasion with his parents, who were up from Philadelphia, and his dog Charlotte, who accompanies him everywhere. Before hitting it big with The Hangover in 2009, Cooper bounced between TV and film for a decade, most memorably playing Will Tippin on Alias and the argyle-clad Ivy League sociopath Sack Lodge in 2005’s Wedding Crashers. After a turn HEMISPHERES: So what did you do in Philadelphia over the as “Faceman” in the A-Team remake, summer—besides make a movie? Cooper spent most of last summer COOPER: Actually, we’re doing some reshoots there right in Philly, his hometown, filming his now. It’s great being with my family, just soaking them up. forthcoming film, Limitless, alongside Every morning I take my dog out to Germantown Academy, where I went to school, and run around the fields there. And Robert De Niro. It’s about a schlubby we love to go down to Pat’s for cheesesteaks. It’s not touristy writer named Eddie Morra who for us, because we’ve been doing it since I was a kid. stumbles upon a remarkable pill that HEMISPHERES: For someone so fit, you sure seem to like eating. allows him to use every square inch COOPER: We’re Italian-Irish. I grew up with the first question of his brain to perform remarkable of the day being, “What are we eating for breakfast?” And mental feats. It’s part Pygmalion (with then once you ate breakfast it was, “What are we going to Morra playing Eliza Doolittle to the make for lunch?” and then “What are we going to make for drug’s Henry Higgins), part romance, dinner?” Then it was getting something ready for tomorrow. part gangster movie, and a long way HEMISPHERES: Speaking of too much of a good thing, your from The Hangover. Cooper’s character drinking and drugging days are in the past, yet you’re making is charming, brainy and irresistible to a movie about a drug that seems to fix everything. What drew women. It’s sort of like real life—only you to Limitless? Eddie needs pills to pull it off. COOPER: It’s one of those hot scripts that’s been around for

years. Heath Ledger wanted to do it. Then Shia LaBeouf was attached. Finally, Neil Burger, who directed The Illusionist, came on to direct it. Given my history with chemicals, I thought it would be interesting to play something like this, where the character feels he has sudden powers. It’s not about addiction, per se; it’s about the idea of having power over people. The character deals with the side effects pretty quickly—you’re not seeing him jonesing that much—so the movie ends up more about how he negotiates the new relationships that come from the drug, rather than him obsessing over it. HEMISPHERES: How critical do you think your training at the Actors Studio was to your work? COOPER: Very. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing before that. I grew up in an environment where being emotional was not something that was seen as honorable. HEMISPHERES: You just did an appearance on Inside the Actors Studio. What was it like to go onstage there? COOPER: I was reluctant to go back, because I didn’t think I really deserved to be there. But after I made Limitless, at least I could stand there without feeling like a complete fool. It was a really wonderful night. When I went to school there, they did a show with Steven Spielberg and Robert De Niro, and I got to

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The Hangover was about a world people could relate to—even with a tiger in the bathroom.

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to right, with Hangover Part II costars; playing an exhibition tennis match in New York in 2010; on the set of Limitless with Robert De Niro; hobnobbing with fans on the red carpet.

ask a question. It was weird to be back on the stage answering the questions. HEMISPHERES: Even though Limitless is a pretty serious movie, you’ve proven you can bring the funny. Where does that come from? COOPER: I think certainly my upbringing and DNA have a lot to do with it, but it’s all music when you come down to it. It’s just recognizing the music of something and going with it. Plus, I surround myself with funny people. HEMISPHERES: How’s the sequel to The Hangover coming along? COOPER: We just wrapped it. I got back from Thailand on New Year’s Eve. We were gone for a little over nine weeks in Bangkok. I can’t believe it’s in the can already. It’s a great formula, it really is. This one continues that kind of gritty comedy. That’s about all I can say about it. HEMISPHERES: When you were making the ﬁrst one, did you guys know you were creating a ﬁlm that would ultimately swamp the culture with tiger and hangover jokes? COOPER: When we were shooting the scene when Mr. Chow jumps out of the trunk of the car naked onto my neck, it was about ninety degrees out, and we were in a dirt parking lot behind a casino. I was sitting there with Todd Phillips, the director, looking at playback of that moment, and I remember we both sort of looked at each other and said, “Are we making a comedy? What the hell is this?” I really can’t say for sure, but I think Todd’s gift is that his comedy comes out of realism, and one of the reasons the movie connected is that it was about a world that normal

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people could relate to—even though there’s a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet and Mike Tyson singing that Genesis song. HEMISPHERES: In your time as a journeyman actor, you used to be able to pretty much come and go as you please. Those days are officially over, right? COOPER: If that’s the cross to bear, I go willingly. I struck gold with those guys—Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Todd Phillips. They really are just wonderful men and great collaborators. HEMISPHERES: So what’s the worst hangover you ever had? COOPER: There are a lot to pick from, but probably my first one, when I was twelve. I took my blanket down to the living room and just lay there all day, unable to get up. HEMISPHERES: That’s sort of boring. Were there at least any tigers in the house? COOPER: Not that I noticed, but I was sleeping. HEMISPHERES: Speaking of paws, you have abnormally large feet. COOPER: I’d say I’m a thirteen, thirteen and a half, depending on what style shoe. I had size twelve feet with I was eleven, and I was so excited. I thought I was going to be, like, six-five and a great basketball player. Instead I’m almost six-two, just with huge feet. I’ve got boats at the bottom of my legs, for sure. DAVID CARR, who covers culture and media for The New York Times, thought he had found a drug that made him 10 times smarter. Then he discovered everyone has access to espresso.

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THE MEAL PLAN

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For decades, school administrators have struggled and failed to improve student lunches. This (slightly mad) professor offers a different approach: tricking kids into eating well. IT’S WORKING. 67

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CHARLENE O’CONNOR HAD A FRUIT PROBLEM.

O’Connor is the school lunch manager for the public schools in Plattsburgh, New York, near the Canadian border. About a year ago, she was under pressure from parents, the media and school administrators to get her 2,000 students to eat more fresh fruit. Unfortunately, the kids seemed to prefer the canned fruit in syrup. “It’s not like we weren’t offering apples, oranges and pears,” O’Connor says. “They just weren’t taking them.” Enter Brian Wansink, a Cornell University professor who studies human eating behavior. Wansink spent a week in Plattsburgh at the invitation of the New York board of health and suggested two simple ﬁxes: Place the fruit in attractive bowls by the cash register, and create signs urging kids to eat it. O’Connor was skeptical. “It sounded too easy,” she says. “If they weren’t going to take fruit in the middle of the cafeteria line, why would they take it at the end?” Still, she was willing to give it a shot, and in January 2010 she put Wansink’s suggestions into practice. Two months later, in March, she sold more than 1,000 pieces of fruit—four times what the school had sold the previous December. O’Connor was stunned. (She was also out of fruit.) Parents wrote emails saying their kids were raving about fruit in the cafeteria. Wansink’s advice had altered O’Connor’s ideas about feeding children, a job she’d done for two decades. “We made a few simple changes in the lunchroom for less than a thousand dollars,” O’Connor says, “and we changed the way these kids eat.” Changing the way kids eat is a matter of national concern these days. Childhood obesity has tripled in the U.S. since 1980, and high-calorie school lunches are generally acknowledged to be part of the problem. While schools and nutritional advocates have been trying to get people to eat better for years, few have succeeded, and Wansink thinks he knows why. Traditional weight-loss measures in which people deny themselves fattening foods, governmental attempts to tax or ban foods, and well-meaning efforts by people like chef Jamie Oliver to employ reason to get people to eat better create resistance.

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SERVICE WITH A SMILE Cornell Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brian Wansink, the brains behind the experimental Smarter Lunchrooms Initiative.

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“When people feel forced to do something against their will,” he says, “they rebel.” So what’s the answer? Basically, trick them. Wansink has devised dozens of simple and inexpensive ways to get kids to do what they ought to be doing anyway. They’re part of a program he calls the Smarter Lunchrooms Initiative, and the U.S. government has kicked in $1 million to help him spread the word. His approach is less about convincing or educating, and more a matter of engineering. “I’m a behavioral engineer,” he says. “We engineer solutions to behavioral problems.”

OVER A PLATE OF EGGS AND bacon (he’s unabashedly a meat, potatoes and dessert guy), Wansink recounts the moment he became obsessed with food. During his childhood in Sioux City, Iowa, his father was laid off, and for a while the family struggled to put food on the table. From then on, Wansink made a point of taking jobs that included free food as a perk. One of these was selling vegetables door to door, which he found fascinating. “I wanted to know why people would buy vegetables one day and not the other,” he says. Years later, after a somewhat tortured educational path—he nearly

failed out of his Stanford Ph.D. program—he made digging into those choices his life’s work. Now 50, Wansink is a leading figure in the overlapping fields of consumer behavior and behavioral economics—a pursuit loosely defined as the study of how and why people make purchases. In addition to the federal grant money he just received to seed his lunchroom campaign, he’s got his own research lab and a name-chair professorship at Cornell; he’s the author of dozens of scholarly articles as well as the best-selling book Mindless Eating, which has been translated into more than 20 languages; and from 2007 to 2009 he was executive director of the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. “If you listed the people having an impact in this field, he is in the top tier,” says Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Tall, blond and perpetually in motion, Wansink is a showman with a goofy streak. He laughs uproariously at the slightest provocation, speaks in the exaggerated tones of someone hosting a children’s television show, and has a flair for offbeat research studies that attract media attention. His greatest hits include analyzing the growth in portion sizes in paintings of the Last Supper, studying how the shape of glasses affects the pours of Philadelphia bartenders, and using automatically refilling bowls of soup to prove that people will continue

eating as long as there is food in front of them. Through his research, Wansink has come to believe that the average person makes around 250 eating decisions a day, and most of those are unconscious—“mindless”—decisions triggered by his or her environment. Factors that nudge people to eat more include sitting in front of the television, oversize bowls and displays of fattening snacks by cash registers. The key, therefore, is to alter the environment to encourage people to eat less and better, while thinking it was their idea. In other words: “You want your kid to eat carrots?” he says. “Then give her a choice between carrots and celery. If you just offer carrots she’ll feel that you’re forcing a vegetable on her. If you offer carrots and celery, she’ll pick carrots and think it was her idea.” “People say, ‘You are tricking people, and that’s manipulative!’” he says. “But the truth is any eating environment is manipulative in that it will lead you to eat a certain way. So let’s create environments that nudge people to do the right thing.”

UNTIL NOW THERE HAVE BEEN two major stumbling blocks in the way of people pushing for better food in cafeterias. First, eating better isn’t

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EAT YOUR VEGETABLES Wansink works his magic on hesitant fourth-graders at Cayuga Heights Elementary School in Ithaca, New York.

exactly a preadolescent priority, so the kids aren’t much help. Second, healthier food is more expensive and less popular, making it less proﬁtable for cash-strapped schools that need to at least break even on their lunch programs. So the question is how to create a lunch program that is both healthy and popular enough to be sustainable. It’s daunting, but Wansink believes it’s doable. His recommendations are rooted in two decades of research by him and other scientists and have been tested in labs and schools for years. They boil down to the following four concepts: Placement is key. By placing healthful foods like broccoli at the beginning of the cafeteria line, you can increase sales by 10 to 15 percent. Placing fresh fruit by end of the line—a choke point usually reserved for impulse buys like cookies—can increase fruit sales by 70 percent. Marketing and advertising work. Often this is as simple as giving an item a snazzy name. For example, renaming zucchini something like “Fresh spring zucchini,” can improve sales by more than 25 percent. When cafeteria

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workers ask kids, “Do you want a salad,” sales can increase by a third. Never underestimate the power of convenience. Moving the salad bar away from the wall and into the path of kids walking through the lunch line can triple salad sales. Keeping chocolate milk behind the plain milk increases sales of plain milk. When students don’t use trays they consume 21 percent less fruits and vegetables (which are mostly hard-to-carry side dishes). Making kids pay cash for cookies, rather than charge them on their prepaid meal cards can lead to a 55 percent reduction in sales of cookies and an uptick in fruit sales. Finally, look out for visual cues. When ice cream is hidden under an opaque freezer lid, sales go down. When fruit is displayed in attractive bowls, sales can more than double. Reducing cereal bowl size to 14 ounces from 18 ounces can lead to a 24 percent reduction in the average serving at breakfast. In January, Wansink and his team moved into the new Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs, where he will run his school lunch campaign. He’s hired

Christine Wallace, the award-winning the former director of nutrition for the Corning City School District, to take his ideas and research and help package them into a monthly newsletter for lunchroom administrators around the country. Each year going forward, Wansink says, his center will focus on promoting two lunchroom changes that will cost less than $50 to implement, and try to get schools to adopt those two changes, through his website, newsletter and speaking engagements. “This year we’d like to see tenthousand schools put fruit in nice bowls and add descriptive labels for healthy foods,” says Wansink, who in the short time since he got started has already had more than 1,400 American schools express interest in the program. “We’re not measuring success by how many people hear about this. We’re measuring success by the number of schools that make these two changes and report their sales to us.” Then he’s off. It’s time for dinner. EDWARD LEWINE, a Hemispheres contributing writer, is a poster boy for Brian Wansink’s theories about mindless overeating.

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in treatment Take a deep breath. Relax. No matter how stressed out you get, it’s nice to be reminded that there’s a spa out there to soothe you. From sleep therapy to Thai detox, anti-aging facials to a mythically good backrub (and not to mention something called Rolﬁng), Hemispheres has traveled the world to ﬁnd the best spa treatments out there right now. Be prepared to feel better.

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GET WET A better bath.

When Hollywood wants to show relaxation in a single image, it’s often a marble bathtub overflowing with bubbles, and no wonder. There’s scarcely a faster way to reach nirvana than feeling your heart rate slow while immersed in a cauldron of perfumed suds. But there’s a bath, and then there’s a bath. Spas like the Nam Hai in Hoi An, Vietnam, have elevated the practice to an art, crafting themed bathing ceremonies that reflect historical Tibetan, Asian, Arabian and Balinese customs. The Kohler Waters Spa in Kohler, Wisconsin (pictured), takes a more modern approach, using technology from its namesake plumbing company to outfit bath treatments with underwater music, colors and mind-boggling configurations of whirlpool jets. Either way, your stress levels will take a dip.

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MELLOW YELO • The “zero-gravity experience” YeloChair at New York’s YeloSpa is meant to induce intense low-intensity.

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In today’s overscheduled world, the only thing harder than paying attention is turning off and going to sleep. To relieve the resulting insomnia, spas like the new Raison d’Etre spa at Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel, and Six Senses at Rue de Castiglione in Paris are offering massages that lull guests into sleep with soft music, sleep-encouraging muscle releases and oils or butters scented with chamomile or lavender. Even day spas have gotten in on the trend: One of the most popular treatments at New York’s YeloSpa is a nap in a podlike treatment room, where you can customize the sound, lighting and scent.

Working mines and vacations don’t go hand in hand. But the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Wieliczka, Poland, has been a tourist attraction for decades because of the purported health beneﬁts of breathing the cold, salty air. Spending time in the salt cave is believed to help people with ailments such as asthma, allergies and ulcers. In the last few years, the salt cave craze has spread stateside. Galos Caves in Chicago are created entirely out of salt from the Dead Sea and Eastern Europe. At $15 for a 45-minute session, a visit to Galos certainly couldn’t hurt anything.

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DETOXICATING FEELING Don’t just take care of the outside; give your entire body a good cleanse. If you go to a spa for pampering, a detox program may not sound like a good time. But if you go to a spa to feel better, these intensive, multiday programs are just the thing. Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary in Koh Samui, Thailand, gives visitors specially prepared food, herbal remedies, colon hydrotherapy and time in an infrared sauna, while We Care Spa, a celeb favorite in San Diego, focuses mostly on food—or the lack thereof. You will partake in a juice fast meant to help with weight loss and ﬂush out impurities with spa treatments such as a magnesium wrap or an herbal detox wrap.

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5. SPA SAMPLER, $171 (shown above) The Spa at Chelsea Piers, New York City 25-minute Swedish massage, 25-minute facial and manicure.

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FACE VALUE Skip surgery with a superlative facial. All but one of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery’s top ﬁve nonsurgical procedures in 2009 were antiaging face treatments. But while Botox and ﬁllers are popular, recovery time is long, and the results can be, shall we say, less than desirable. This has led many spa visitors to request the next best thing: facials, like one at the Spa at Mandarin Oriental in New York City, that produce near-surgical results without breaking the skin. The Mandarin’s masterpiece, the Opulent Rejuvenesence facial, costs as much as the least expensive injectables ($600) but uses topical products by celebrity surgeon Ivo Pitanguy to achieve similar contouring, lifting and wrinkle-reducing effects—without that conspicuous recovery week in Tahiti.

HEAD GAMES Be taken care of from the neck up. Cal-a-Vie spa in San Diego wants to help you get your head on straight. They probably can’t help you remember where you left your keys or what time you have to pick up your daughter from soccer practice, but their craniosacral therapy can help balance your energy. Just by working with your head and face, therapists can help improve the function of your central nervous system, relieving headaches, TMJ, neck pain and back pain. The rest is up to you and your iPhone.

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IN THE BAG • The Aranwa Spa, in Cuzco, Peru,

uses “pindas”—bags stuffed with healing herbs—in an ancient Andean treatment.

A PLACE TO CALL OM Traditional treatments get you in the right place. Going all the way back to ancient Greek bathhouses, spas were used more for health and socialization than beauty maintenance—equal parts chill-out spot, community center and hospital. Now, some modern spas are making a sense of place a fundamental part of the spa experience. These treatments give visitors a taste of local history using ancestral practices or indigenous ingredients.

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Chinese staples like ginger, rice powder, jasmine and green tea soften the skin before a traditional tui na scalp massage at The Spa at The Mira.

Turkish-style hammam at La Mamounia spa is the setting for treatments with black soap, honey and orange essence.

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RIVIERA MAYA, MEXICO: At

the Sense Spa at Rosewood Mayakobá, a Mayan steam ritual known as a temazcal involves heating a small hut with volcanic stones.

CUZCO, PERU: A mystical Andean massage at Aranwa Sacred Valley Hotel and Wellness takes place on a stone bed that has been heated with ﬂaming oils from indigenous plants.

CRETE, GREECE:

Several treatments at Blue Palace Resort & Spa in Elounda use foods for which Crete is famous, including Greek yogurt, olive oil and raki.

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THERE’S THE RUB One squeamish guy’s quest to discover the origins of the backrub leads to the mecca of massage: Palm Springs. By John Sellers

MONG THE MANY THINGS I expected to experience during my first visit to Palm Springs, a nap in the arms of a stocky dude in a wetsuit wasn’t one of them. • Yet there I was, in a small heated pool at the sprawling Riviera Resort & Spa, being cradled by a man named Kyle and snoring like a walrus. It’s a scenario my wife would snicker at heartily over the phone a few hours later, but I’m man enough to admit that in the moment, I was totally feeling it. Kyle, the massage therapist assigned to treat me at the hotel’s lush SpaTerre, happened to be an ardent practitioner of the relatively new—and, it almost goes without saying, New Age—breed of massage called watsu. The name is a hybrid of the words “water” and “shiatsu,” but, more tellingly, Kyle’s introductory description included the phrases “The idea is to simulate the womb feeling” and “I’ll be holding you by the sacrum.” While such expressions would ordinarily cause me to flee, I figured an activity sounding so loony would provide a nice contrast to my larger mission here. I’d come to Palm Springs to partake in some of the trademark therapies that helped put this desert town on the map back during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Since it was hard for me to imagine longtime resident Frank Sinatra allowing a guy in skin-tight swimwear to hold him by the sacrum, I booked a second, more traditional treatment package at the nearby

Palm Springs Parker. It was at that hotel’s seductive, retro PSYC spa the next day that I truly discovered why massage therapy has exploded into a $16–$20 billion industry. Of course, people had been on the hunt for good rubdowns long before Swedish massages, cucumber facials and other classic, high-end spa treatments lured stars and media moguls to the arid enclave of Palm Springs. Cave paintings dating to 15,000 B.C. indicate that even Neanderthals loved to have their muscles tenderized, and paintings found inside the pyramids of ancient Egypt depict pharaohs furthering their eternal quest to get loose along the Nile in the same manner. But if any civilization can lay claim to inventing the palliative practice of what we currently think of as massage therapy, it might be the Chinese. The ﬁrst recorded use of the word “massage,” at least in its translated form, comes from a book now known as The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, a compendium of healing practices written in the second century B.C. Regardless of its origins, massage, like so many other things that matter, was taken to a new level by the ancient Romans— and has carried with it a whiff of licentiousness ever since. According to the surprisingly thrilling book The History of Massage, by Robert Noah Calvert, citizens of both genders ﬂocked to public bathhouses to get “soothing gentle massage at the hands of adept slave girls”—an image that, at least in my juvenile mind, conjures the racy B-movies of Roger Corman. By the end of their

world dominance, the Romans had so sullied the purely restorative rationale behind the Greek ur-spas called gymnasiums—literally, “places for naked exercise”—that the very suggestion of taking a steam bath seemed sordid. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s, when two New York doctors visited Sweden and brought back a technique developed by Per Henrik Ling, that massage gained a foothold in America. Around then, resorts for the rich began bubbling up around hot springs in places like Saratoga Springs, New York, and Calistoga, California. It’s a quick ramp up to the Palm Springs—and the spa industry as a whole—that we know today. Founded by a doctor seeking a cure for his tuberculosis-stricken son in the 1880s, Palm Springs flourished as Hollywood’s influence grew just 100 miles to the west. By the 1930s, celebrities knew it as a goto destination. Actor Ralph Bellamy opened his Racquet Club here in 1934, and soon enough the town’s part-time residents included Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas and Ol’ Blue Eyes himself. As I learned with my surprising experience at the Riviera—which opened in 1959—the massage has come a long way, even since its Palm Springs heyday. But as Sylvia, my friendly message therapist at the PSYC spa, led my terrycloth-robed self to a private room named after the American Cup winner Courageous, commanded me to lie down on a padded massage table, and started beating my tense shoulders like a pair of bongos, it was refreshing to find that some things will never change. JOHN SELLERS is the author of the forthcoming memoir The Old Man and the Swamp.

ILLUSTRATION BY OLIVER JEFFERS

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COAST IS CLEAR • The view from the spa at the 11th century Hotel Caruso Belvedere, outside of Ravello, Italy.

Rooms with a View

THE INSIDE JOB

Bring nature into your spa experience.

Rolﬁng restructures your body— in a good way.

The scenery in these far-ﬂung spas is almost as decadent as the treatments. 1. WOLGAN VALLEY TIMELESS SPA, LITHGOW, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Indoor and outdoor treatment rooms offer unfettered wild valley vistas. 2. HOTEL CARUSO BELVEDERE, RAVELLO, ITALY As you look out the window from the massage table, the Mediterranean lulls you into semiconsciousness. 3. DEEP OCEAN SPA, BORA BORA, TAHITI You don’t even have to leave your beach blanket— on that white-sand, cerulean-water Tahitian beach you fantasize about—to get a massage. 4. THE CAMBRIAN, ADELBODEN, SWITZERLAND The invigorating combination of the mountain views and the thorough massage might just inspire you to spin around on the hillside and yodel.

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If you’ve heard of Rolfing, you’ve probably wondered what a procedure with such an unpleasant name could possibly entail. Not to worry—it’s not a description of what’s going to happen to you. Well, not entirely. The body alignment practice, more similar to chiropracty than to massage, is named for the doctor who founded it. Dr. Ida Rolf realized back in the early 20th century that realigning the body to move more naturally could make even the most notorious sloucher stand up straight. Although the 10-session series—in which a therapist uses his fingers, hands and elbows to reform your connective tissue—isn’t exactly blissful, Rolfing can relieve aches and pains, help you get back into exercise and even make you look better in clothes. “People who Rolf want to change physically, emotionally or mentally,” says Ray McCall, Advanced Training Faculty Member at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. “I see it as a catalyst.”

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Three Perfect Days

THE MEXICAN RIVIERA Along this captivating stretch of Paciﬁc coast, where the jungle meets the sea, a global village of surfers, cowboys, expats and celebrities gather in a laidback paradise. BY JORDAN HELLER

83 DAY ONE

Visit with the “Pie Lady”

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88 DAY THREE

Road trip to Nayarit

Sunset with the turtles of San Pancho

// PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEVIN J. MIYAZAKI

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SALAD DAYS Opposite, relaxing at Costa

Careyes; above, ensalada mixta at El Embarcadero restaurant.

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TAKE A LEISURELY DRIVE down the lush Mexican Riviera, a stretch of coastline dotted with small fishing villages and surf towns, and anchored by the bustling metropolis of Puerto Vallarta, and you’ll notice some curious sights. Cacti and palm trees share the same ecosystem with crocs, raccoon-like tejons, sea turtles and iguanas; and Mexican ranchers and farmers share pristine beach space and barstools with gringo expats, hippies and surf rats from points north and far northeast. Here, the jungle and the sea coexist in perfect harmony. Historically, this part of Mexico consisted mostly of remote villages, but after John Huston filmed 1964’s The Night of the Iguana with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner here, it became a destination. San Francisco bohemians and the Hollywood glitterati began turning up seeking a respite from the rat race, and soon afterward cruise ships started to regularly port in Puerto Vallarta—including the fictitious Pacific Princess from The Love Boat. Seldom has there been a better time to visit. Great deals abound, the beaches are pristine and uncrowded, and the natives welcome visitors with open arms—or at least a “Jalisco Jiveshake” (see page 84). In this part of Mexico, where the locals leave their doors unlocked and their hearts open, the blazing sun is all you’ll need protection from. And for that, some sunscreen, a pair of shades and a classic Mexican straw fedora will do just fine.

DAY ONE Headed south from Puerto Vallarta in a rented ragtop Jeep Wrangler, you decide to stop for lunch in Boca de Tomatlán, a small beach town about 30 minutes from the city. As you turn off Route 200 and descend a steep cobblestoned hill, paraiso reveals itself: green, jungled cliffs framing a serene sandy beach and tropical blue waters dotted with skiffs. Streetside, across the cobblestones that led you to this charming cove, a group of boys are singing an impromptu a cappella folk tune. You park the Jeep in the dead end at the bottom of the hill and take a seat on the outdoor terrace of El Embarcadero (1) restaurant, which offers a great view of the beach and a delicious salad of shrimp, octopus, tomato, cucumber and onion, all washed down with a hot mug of jugo de camarón (shrimp broth served like a cup of tea). For dessert, you walk 30 paces onto the beach and hop a $10 water taxi to Yelapa (2), a small town accessible only by boat. In 20 minutes, after a scenic tour of the coast, you ﬁnd yourself in a tropical paradise. There you meet a stout woman with a big smile and a bowl of pies balanced on her head. This is Chelly Rodriguez, otherwise known as the “Pie Lady.”

VIVIANA DEAN // PR DIRECTOR, COSTA CAREYES // “My perfect day is watching my husband surf at Arroyo Seco or Chamela Bay early in the morning and then after lunch taking our two chihuahuas to Teopa Beach—the most perfect, protected beach on this coast, where the turtles come to lay their eggs and our dogs run like wild.”

BLOOM TOWNS Clockwise

from opposite, colorful hillside villas at Costa Careyes; Playa Rosa; Costa Careyes’ special Patrida tequila; boats on the shore at Boca de Tamatlan; cacti.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY PETER JAMES FIELD

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HIP SHAKE MASTERING THE “JALISCO JIVESHAKE”

If there’s one thing to know when greeting a local on the coast of Jalisco or Nayarit, it’s the handshake. The Jalisco Jiveshake is a sideways slap of the palms followed by the bumping of ﬁsts—soulful and understated but involved enough so as to feel that you’re in on a secret. Akin to the “shaka” or “hang loose” sign of Hawaii, the Jalisco Jiveshake originated in Puerto Vallarta in the Mexican surf culture of the 1980s and proliferated up and down the coast thereafter.

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She’s been baking and selling her pies here for more than 20 years. The banana cream is a standout: ripe sliced plantains on a sweet pudding, sitting atop a flaky crust. You take the water taxi back to Boca de Tomatlán, then drive south through an alternating landscape of jungle and dusty pueblos that smell of sage. In two hours, you arrive at Costa Careyes (3), a luxury resort that draws a glamorous international crowd. Francis Ford Coppola was a regular visitor for 20 years; Heidi Klum and Seal own a villa; and everyone from Henry Kissinger to Giorgio Armani has spent time here. Though its reputation is for decadence, Careyes is more than a seaside playground for the jetsetting elite. It’s the creation of Gian Franco Brignone, an eccentric 84-yearold Italian financier who dropped out of European high society more than four decades ago to build his Mexican ensueño. To Brignone’s mind, Careyes—comprising several kilometers of coastline and hundreds of hectares of jungle and mangrove swamps—is a living, breathing art project fully integrated with nature. There are no jet skis in the water or umbrellas crowding the beaches. The 56 villas and 38 casitas are alternately painted yellow, green, blue and red, and they appear as if they’ve sprouted naturally from the grounds. When Brignone dies, a specially prepared cliffside cave high above the property will serve as his tomb. After sunset, you go to find him at Punto.Como, an outdoor restaurant in the plaza where many of Careyes’s regulars gather at night. You order the pizza—thin-crust with fresh pomodoro sauce and mozzarella cheese—and scan the tables of well-heeled but casually dressed people engaged in lively conversation. Brignone is easy to spot. Just look for the man with the wild white beard and the look of mad genius sipping on a special reserve of Partida tequila made just for Costa Careyes. You introduce yourself and the old man pours you a couple on the condition that you don’t bring up business, real estate or any other unpleasantness. The exquisitely smoky aftertaste stays with you as you make your way back to your casita and turn in.

DAY TWO You wake up to the sound and smell of the Paciﬁc outside your window—

that is, if you consider the absence of a fourth wall a window. After taking in the serene display of quiet sailboats, tree-covered rock formations jutting up from the ocean and sleepy villas peeking out from the cliffs, you head to La Viuda (1) restaurant. Spanish for “the widow,” La Viuda predates Brignone’s arrival in Careyes and even the panAmerican highway that cuts through these jungles. You go for the huevos rancheros con chorizo. When the yolk of the egg is broken, and it mixes with the salsa, refried beans and spicy red ground chorizo, it’s pure alchemy. After breakfast, you head for the Careyes polo field, a bright green gridiron carved into the middle of the jungle, half ringed by mango trees. You step up to the foot-high blue wall that borders the field and watch the players thunder past you on horseback, followed by the thwack of the mallet hitting the ball. It’s exhilarating. After a delectable lunch of crispy red snapper cooked in mild spices at the Playa Rosa restaurant by the beach, you hop back into the Jeep and head north to the surf town of Nayarit. From Careyes, it’s a good four-hour drive. You hit some rugged road north of Puerto Vallarta where stretches have been washed out by the September floods, but you hang tough and keep your eyes open, and eventually the pavement reappears under your wheels.

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LOCAL FLAVOR Clockwise from opposite, the view from a hillside casita at Costa Careyes; a surf shop in Sayulita; zucchini soup from Mangialuoco; La Viuda owner Maria de Jesus Vargas Franco; orange juice in Sayulita.

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SHORE THINGS Clockwise from top, surfers in Sayulita; coconuts for sale on Highway 200 in Jalisco; breakfast at Imanta; opposite, polo players in Careyes.

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You drop your bags off in your oceanfront casa at Imanta (2), a beautiful and serene Asian-inspired resort nestled into the jungled shores of Punta de Mita, and take a quick dip in your private infinity pool—it’s hard to resist after long hours on the road—but you don’t get too comfortable. In no time you’re back in the Jeep, headed due north for Sayulita, a small but bustling beach town about 20 minutes up the road, where Anglo hippie expats mix with Mexican surf rats. Dinner is at Mangiafuoco (3), an open-air restaurant owned by two Italian expats that bridges the two cultures to great effect. You try the fresh pasta with shrimp in a sauce made of guajillos—mild red Mexican chili peppers— cooked with tomatoes and garlic. It’s excellent. After dinner, you grab a bottle of Pacifico from one of the bodegas off the central plaza and stroll the beach. Head north past the surfers and corroded old dinghies until you reach the Playa de los Muertos (4) graveyard, where opulent monuments of marble and blue tile sit next to such makeshift grave markings as a cross made of two tree branches and plastic red and green flowers. Votive candles abound. The Mexicans, you think, really know how to honor their dead. At night, it’s all about Don Pato’s (5), a rooftop bar one story above the plaza featuring a house band called Raices Negras—their Mejicano blend of reggae and afro-beat music gets the crowd SASA RANCADORE // moving. After a couple of hours of dancing, you OWNER OF MANGIAFUOCO finish off the night with pork and pineapple tacos RESTAURANT, SAYULITA // “I love the beach in from Al Pastor. It’s the only place open late at Sayulita—the beach and night, so everybody’s there. You chat with the jungle mixing together here locals for a while before heading back, tired and give it a strange energy. It pulls you in.” full, to your casa at Imanta.

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FEBRUARY 2011

ABOVE GROUND POOL The top ﬂoor of Imanta.

DAY THREE The sound of the ocean crashing on the beach roughly 30 yards in front of your screen-walled casa gently stirs you from sleep. When the staff at Imanta tell you they’ve literally built the place from the ground up, they’re not kidding. The casas and casonas, 15 in all, are made of a desert-colored granite-in-process (that’s granite somewhere on its way to becoming limestone) unearthed from the ground the resort is built on. You order in coffee and enjoy a long, leisurely swim in your pool before heading to the Imanta Observatorio, a small outdoor restaurant overlooking the beach. The shrimp and flounder ceviche melts in your mouth like a lime slushy. It being Sunday, you head into Higuera Blanca (1), the sleepy cobblestoned village that sits outside Imanta’s gates, to take in a Novatos baseball game. Just beyond the thatched roofs of the dugouts, food vendors pack the foul lines. They have everything: tacos, tostados and, of course, cerveza. You take a seat and pay close attention to the shortstop, a hulk of a man they call “El Tamarindo.” He’s got a rocket for an arm. After a day among the people, you decide to wind up your trip communing with nature. So you head north to San Pancho to find Frank Smith, a Californian expat who has been running the Grupo Ecológico de la Costa Verde (2) here for nearly 20 years. From June to the end of December, Smith and his team patrol the beach protecting turtle nests from poachers who sell the contents as chicken eggs. Smith collects the eggs, and looks after them in his nursery. After they’ve hatched, he brings the babies back to the shore where they dutifully crawl into the ocean. “These guys will go through a sixty-foot hurricane wave with a grin on their faces,” he tells you. The sun is setting, and it’s almost time to head back to the airport, but as you watch the hatchlings crawl into the ocean in the late afternoon light, you’re reminded MINKA INGERSOLL // OWNER OF of an old Mexican proverb: “A donde fueres, haz lo que TIERRA SAYULITA BOUTIQUE vieres,” which, roughly translated, means “Adapt // ”Sayulita is an expat town yourself to the local customs.” With that, you walk off to with the new people living harmoniously with the locals. take one last swim in the Pacific.

WAKING THE DEAD A LIVELY FESTIVAL STARTS DECEMBER WITH A BANG

The Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which takes place every December, commemorates the day in 1851 when the holy apparition appeared to a peasant. Celebrations occur north and south of Puerto Vallarta, but the central plaza of Sayulita is a special place to experience it. A colorful stage hosts a program of mariachi bands and traditional Mexican dancers, cerveza and chorizo are plentiful, and the action is intermittently pierced by ﬁrecrackers —a tradition meant to wake up the saints for the occasion.

Brooklyn-based writer JORDAN HELLER greets all comers with a Jalisco Jiveshake and a smile.

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It’s beautiful. My tip is the ﬁsh tacos at El Cuilt—best in Sayulita. It’s a block and a half north of the plaza.”

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THOSE THREE PERFECT DAYS DAY ONE (1) El Embarcadero Avenida las Garzas No. 500, Boca de Tomatlan (2) Yelapa Paciﬁc coast of Jalisco (3) Costa Careyes Highway 200, 2½ hours south of Puerto Vallarta; Tel.: 315-3510-320

DAY TWO (1) La Viuda Hwy. 200, Chamela (2) Imanta Montenahuac Lote L, Higuera Blanca; Tel.: 329298-4200 (3) Mangiafuoco Avenida Revolution, Sayulita; Tel.: 322-173-3750 (4) Playa de los Muertos past Villa Amor south of Sayulita (5) Don Pato’s Calle Marlin 10, Sayulita

DAY THREE (1) Higuera Blanca Tomatlan, Jalisco (2) Grupo Ecológico de la Costa Verde America Latina No.102, San Francisco, Nayarit; Tel.: 311-258-4100

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY HEMISPHERES PROMOTION | MARCH 2011

IN GOOD

COMPANY Modern businesses should be deﬁned as much as by what they give as by what they get. In the early days of the industrial revolution, money was king, whether it came at the expense of people, animals or the environment. In the past 40 years, we’ve come to realize that a business plan of that sort is unsustainable. Consumers are the most important part of the business cycle, and they care about the world they live in. To make sure consumers don’t feel taken advantage of, businesses have started giving back to their communities—being as socially responsible as they would be if they were their consumers’ neighbors. Modern leaders call this phenomenon corporate responsibility, and it’s about sharing values, helping others and showcasing forward-thinking executives who support programs for positive change: clean drinking water, better healthcare, green energy and stronger educational programs, for instance. This month, Hemispheres highlights a selection of companies and organizations that are making the world a better place, begging the question—is the company that makes the things you buy also making a difference?

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Thriving neighborhoods wherever we do business Demonstrating the role of the private sector While the world economy continues to recover from the recession that struck in the late 2000s, governments across the globe are left making difficult decisions: What national or local programs must be cut to get their nations back on track ﬁnancially? The reality of limited budgets has created a gap between what should be funded versus what can be, namely as it relates to programs that beneﬁt local communities. But this reality has also created an opportunity – and some may say, a responsibility – for the private sector to step up and contribute more to the neighborhoods they serve.

Starbucks chairman, president and CEO Howard Schultz shares his long-standing philosophy: “We believe a responsibility of great companies is to ﬁnd a balance among proﬁtability, benevolence and a social conscience; to build into their DNA, from day one, an understanding that there is a responsibility to give back,” said Schultz. “There are so many companies that do so many good things, and people are realizing it. But I think it’s not a choice anymore. The consumer understands which companies have like-minded values to their own. Our belief is that companies that do the right thing will be rewarded and, as a result of that, shareholders will as well.” For the past four decades, ever since the

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London. In these cities, Starbucks will host events during April to celebrate the community service activities taking place globally and to thank and honor those who volunteered their time. In addition to the large-scale service events in these key cities, Starbucks will coordinate with local organizations around the world to identify and organize local service activities to best meet the needs of each community. “We live our mission and values by not only providing exceptional customer service inside our stores, but also by joining customers in community service outside our stores,” said Schultz. “We have more than 17,000 stores globally, nearly 200,000 partners, and serve more than 50 million customers worldwide each week. It’s exciting to imagine the positive impact we could make.” Starbucks hopes that opportunities created through initiatives like the global month of service make it easier for its partners and customers to get involved – and work toward closing the gap created by the realities of a tough economy. To learn more about Starbucks commitment

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ENTERTAINMENT

INFORMATION

102 Films & Television

115 United Destinations

110 Audio Programming 120 Customs & Immigration 126 Crossword

121 Terminal Diagrams

128 Sudoku

125 Alliances & Partnerships 137 Food & Beverages

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FILM & TELEVISION FILMS ARE SHOWN ONLY on ﬂights of three hours or longer. Movies available on most 747, 757, 767, 777, A319 and A320 aircraft ﬂights. Schedules and selections are subject to change. International Language Tracks / (S) Películas están disponsibles en Español en todas las rutas domesticas en el canal 10.

WESTBOUND

EASTBOUND FILM

TELEVISION

MARCH 1-15

The Big Bang Theory [T] (S)

FILM

TELEVISION

MARCH 1-15

NORTH AMERICA

Conviction [T] (S) MARCH 16-31 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (S)

MARCH 1-15 30 Rock [T] House [T] (S)

Hawaii Five-0 [T]

MARCH 1-15

Better With You

The King’s Speech [T] (S)

The Middle

MARCH 16-31

The Simpsons [T]

True Grit [T] (S)

Friday Night Lights [T] (S)

Two and a Half Men Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story (S)

Forbes’ Most Bankable Stars

TELEVISION

FILM

TELEVISION

The Simpsons [T]

MARCH 1-15

Two and a Half Men

Friday Night Lights [T] (S)

True Grit [T] (S)

MARCH 1-15

HAWAII

Sports Jobs with Junior Seau

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (S) MARCH 16-31

Forbes’ Most Bankable Stars MARCH 16-31

MARCH 1-15 Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story (S)

MARCH 16-31 The King’s Speech [T]

Sports Jobs with Junior Seau

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Conviction [T] (S)

The Big Bang Theory [T] (S)

Both ﬁlms available on ﬂights

Both films available on flights

Hawaii Five-0 [T]

between Denver/Chicago and Hawaii

Better With You

FILM

TELEVISION

SOUTHBOUND

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

MARCH 1-15

TELEVISION

Friday Night Lights [T] (S)

The King’s Speech [T]

Friends (S)

MARCH 16-31

True Grit [T]

Parenthood House [T] (S) The Middle

30 Rock [T] House [T]

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The Middle

FILM

NORTHBOUND

TELEVISION

MARCH 1-15

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The Big Bang Theory [T]

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Hawaii Five-0 [T] Sports Jobs with Junior Seau Frasier

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MARCH 16-31 The Simpsons [T] The Closer [T] Eureka

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GET IN TOUCH What do you think of our programming? We’re open to suggestions. Please send them to play@united.com or visit united.com/play.

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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM | MARCH 2011

MOST FILMS HAVE BEEN EDITED FOR AIRLINE USE. However, customer discretion is still advised. Content guidelines are provided as a courtesy to our customers in choosing whether to view a ﬁlm.

CUSTOMERS ARE WELCOME TO VIEW their own video entertainment aboard a United aircraft as long as they are able to show the programming has an MPAA rating of “R” or less.

THE KING’S SPEECH [T]

1 hr. 58 min.

(S) Spanish (G) German (C) Chinese (J) Japanese

103

[V] Violence [S] Sexual Situations [T] Adult Themes

TRUE GRIT [T]

1 hr. 50 min.

“The King’s Speech is a warm, wise ﬁlm—the best period movie of the year and one of the year’s best movies, period.” —Houston Chronicle

“This True Grit makes the original almost unwatchable except as a curio.” —Denver Post

Based on the true story of the Queen of England’s father and his remarkable friendship with maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, this period piece stars Academy Award nominee Colin Firth as King George VI, who has to ﬁnd a voice with which to lead the nation into war. FEATURING Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi DIRECTED BY Tom Hooper

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can ﬁnd, Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, and insists on accompanying him, against his wishes. FEATURING Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon DIRECTED BY Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER [T]

CONVICTION [T]

1 hr. 52 min.

1 hr. 46 min.

“The beguiling creature design—from minotaur to dragon, sea serpent to onefooted dwarf—and 3D effects heighten the illusion of a storybook coming alive. ” —Chicago Reader

“The quality of the acting is consistently high and Mr. Rockwell’s crackling energy goes a long way toward compensating for the ﬁlm’s predominantly earnest tone.” —Wall Street Journal

Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, their royal friend King Caspian and a warrior mouse named Reepicheep, ﬁnd themselves swallowed by a painting of a ship. Their mission aboard the Dawn Treader takes the courageous voyagers to mysterious islands and a river that turns to gold. FEATURING Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes DIRECTED BY Michael Apted

When Betty Anne Waters’ older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in prison, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the conviction, putting herself through high school, college and, ﬁnally, law school. FEATURING Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Thomas D. Mahard DIRECTED BY Tony Goldwyn

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FILM & TELEVISION TELEVISION DESCRIPTIONS The views contained in the video content are not necessarily those of United.

SPORTS JOBS WITH JUNIOR SEAU

HAWAII FIVE-O [T]

THE BIG BANG THEORY [T]

Junior works for Sports Illustrated at the 2009 Florida-Georgia football game, trying to land an exclusive with Tim Tebow and racing between the press box and the locker room.

Five-0 discovers a connection between Samoan gangs and a mainland mob after an escalating gang war wreaks havoc during a local high school football game.

Sheldon vows payback after Kripke humiliates him on the radio. Howard gets advice concerning his relationship with Bernadette…from Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff.

TWO AND A HALF MEN

30 ROCK [T]

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS [T]

After Charlie’s license is suspended, Jake becomes Charlie’s driver. And much to Charlie’s chagrin, Alan makes plans to attend Chelsea’s birthday party on the seventh season ﬁnale. Stacy Keach and John Amos return as Chelsea’s father and his boyfriend.

Liz puts her newfound self-conﬁdence to use by assisting Pete with the issues he’s been having with an NBC video editor. Jack feels the best way to teach his impending child how to live is to make DVDs of life lessons.

Coach Taylor discovers a troubled relationship between his new starting quarterback and the kid’s father, and his starting fullback presents difﬁculties for Tami.

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT/PERSONAL DEVICES United Airlines strives to make its customer experience safe and comfortable and accordingly has issued the following in regard to the use of electronic equipment/personal devices onboard its aircraft. However, the following is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. Certain electronic devices may not be used on our planes for safety reasons. Such devices may cause electromagnetic interference with cockpit navigation or communications systems during ground operations and while the aircraft is flying below 10,000 feet. However, when an aircraft is traveling above 10,000 feet (normally about 10 minutes after takeoff), passengers can use many of the devices listed. Hearing aids, heart pacemakers and watches are acceptable at all times. These electronic devices can be used in the cabin, but may not be used during takeoff and landing: Calculators; handheld computer games; shavers; portable CD and tape players; laptop computers/ accessory printers/tape drives; portable VCRs/video players These electronic devices cannot be used on the airplane at any time: Cellular phones (cellular phones maybe used on the plane at the gate before the aircraft door is closed or at captain’s discretion when the plane is away from the gate and on the ground); televisions; AM/FM transmitters-receivers; remote-controlled toys In addition, United Airlines has an onboard photography and video policy. Customers who bring personal audio and video equipment onboard may only use these items with headsets. Noise-canceling headsets may be activated. The use of still and video cameras, film or digital, including any cellular or other devices that have this capability, is permitted only for recording of personal events. However, photography, audio or video recording of other customers without their express prior consent is strictly prohibited. Also, unauthorized photography, audio or video recording of airline personnel, aircraft equipment or procedures is always prohibited. Any voice, audio, video or other photography (motion or still), recording or transmission while on any United Airlines aircraft is strictly prohibited, except to the extent specifically permitted by United Airlines. UAL Corporation October 2009.

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FILM & TELEVISION B747 MAINSCREEN PROGRAMMING INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE TRACKS (G) Synchronisierte Versionen finden Sie auf Kanal 2 und 3 (wenn verfĂźgbar). (J) ć&#x2014;Ľć&#x153;ŹčŞ&#x17E;ă Žĺ?šă ?ć&#x203A;żă &#x2C6;ă Żă&#x192; ă&#x192;Łă&#x192;ł ă&#x192;?ă&#x192;Ť2ç&#x2022;Şă &#x160;ă&#x201A;&#x2C6;ă łďź&#x201C;ç&#x2022;Şă §ă &#x160;č ´ă ?ă &#x201E;ă &#x;ă ă &#x2018;ă žă &#x2122;ă&#x20AC;&#x201A;ďź&#x2C6;ä¸&#x20AC;é&#x192;¨č&#x2039;ąčŞ&#x17E;é&#x;łĺŁ°ă Žă żă ¨ă Şă&#x201A;&#x160;ă žă &#x2122;ă&#x20AC;&#x201A;ďź&#x2030; (C) ĺŚ&#x201A;ć&#x17E;&#x153;ĺ?Żç&#x201D;¨ďź&#x152;ĺ&#x153;¨çŹŹ2é˘&#x2018;é &#x201C;ĺ&#x2019;&#x152;çŹŹ3é˘&#x2018;é &#x201C;ĺ°&#x2020;ć??äž&#x203A;čŻč¨&#x20AC;ĺ˝&#x2022;é&#x;ł (K) ŕ˘&#x;ËŠ â&#x20AC;ŤÖŚÍŽ Ř&#x2013;Ü¤â&#x20AC;ŹŐ&#x2026;ß?Ţ ßĽÇšÎ˘Í&#x2C6;Í&#x2019;

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GERMANY & U.K.

The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech [T] (G) 1 hr. 58 min. True Grit [T] (G) 1 hr. 50 min. TV 2 hrs. Morning Glory [T] (G) 1 hr. 47 min. Megamind (G) 1 hr. 36 min. TV 2 hrs.

FROM U.S. Conviction [T] 1 hr. 46 min. TV 2 hrs. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

AUSTRALIA

1 hr. 46 min. Unstoppable [T] 1 hr. 39 min. TV 2 hrs. Secretariat [T] 2 hrs. TV 2 hrs.

FROM U.S.

JAPAN & SOUTH KOREA *Japan flights only

Conviction [T] (K) 1 hr. 46 min. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (J) 1 hr. 46 min. TV 2 hrs. Unstoppable [T] (K) 1 hr. 39 min. TV* 2 hrs. Secretariat [T] (J, K) 2 hrs. TV 2 hrs.

FROM U.S.

CHINA & HONG KONG

Conviction [T] (C) 1 hr. 46 min. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C) 1 hr. 46 min. TV 2 hrs. Unstoppable [T] (C) 1 hr. 39 min. Secretariat [T] (C) 2 hrs. TV 4 hrs.

FROM JAPAN

THAILAND & TAIWAN

Life As We Know It [T] (J, C) 1 hr. 53 min. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps* [T] (J, C) 2 hrs. 12 min. TV 4 hrs.

TO U.S. Conviction [T] (G) 1 hr. 46 min. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (G) 1 hr. 52 min. TV 2 hrs. Unstoppable [T] (G) 1 hr. 39 min. Secretariat [T] (G) 2 hrs. TV 2 hrs.

TO U.S.

The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech [T] 1 hr. 58 min. True Grit [T] 1 hr. 50 min. Morning Glory [T] 1 hr. 47 min. TV 2 hrs. Megamind 1 hr. 36 min. TV 4 hrs.

TO U.S. The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech [T] (J, K) 1 hr. 58 min. True Grit [T] (J, K) 1 hr. 50 min. TV 2 hrs. Morning Glory [T] (J, K) 1 hr. 47 min. Megamind (K) 1 hr. 36 min. TV 2 hrs. TV* 2 hrs.

TO U.S.

The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech [T] (C) 1 hr. 58 min. True Grit [T] (C) 1 hr. 50 min. TV 2 hrs. Morning Glory [T] (C) 1 hr. 47 min. Megamind (C) 1 hr. 36 min. TV 4 hrs.

TO JAPAN

You Again [T] (J, C) 1 hr. 45 min. The Social Network* (J, C) [T] 2 hrs. TV 4 hrs.

*Thailand flights only

FROM HONG KONG

SINGAPORE

VIETNAM

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Life As We Know It [T] (C) 1 hr. 53 min. TV 4 hrs.

You Again [T] (C) 1 hr. 45 min. TV 4 hrs.

TV 4 hrs.

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FILM & TELEVISION B747 MAINSCREEN PROGRAMMING

UNSTOPPABLE [T]

1 hr. 39 min.

SECRETARIAT[T]

(S) Spanish (G) German (C) Chinese (J) Japanese

2 hrs.

[V] Violence [S] Sexual Situations [T] Adult Themes

MEGAMIND [T]

1 hr. 36 min.

A veteran engineer and a young conductor try to stop a massive unmanned locomotive, nicknamed “The Beast” and loaded with toxic cargo. FEATURING Denzel Washington, Chris Pine DIRECTED BY Tony Scott

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery fosters the ﬁrst Triple Crown-winning thoroughbred in 25 years, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. FEATURING Diane Lane, John Malkovich DIRECTED BY Randall Wallace

After super-villain Megamind kills his good-guy nemesis, he becomes bored and creates a new foe who goes rogue. Can Megamind save the day? VOICES BY Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey DIRECTED BY Tom McGrath

MORNING GLORY [T]

YOU AGAIN [T]

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT [T]

1 hr. 47 min.

Stumbling into a job at Daybreak, TV producer Becky Fuller decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy. FEATURING Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford DIRECTED BY Roger Michell

1 hr. 45 min.

Successful PR pro Marni heads home for her older brother’s wedding and discovers that he’s marrying her high school archnemesis. FEATURING Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis DIRECTED BY Andy Fickman

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The only thing Holly and Eric have in common is their dislike for each other. But then they suddenly become guardians of their goddaughter Sophie. FEATURING Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel DIRECTED BY Greg Berlanti

YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO MOVIES, TV SHOWS, MUSIC AND PREMIUM SEAT COMFORT ABOARD UNITED

MARCH 2011

PLAY IF YOUR AIRCRAFT IS EQUIPPED with in-seat video, refer to the separate Play guide located in your seat pocket.

Digital media loading occurs between the 25th and 5th of each month. As a result, please understand if your ﬂight features a different lineup before and after the start of each month.

A ROYAL PAIN

King George VI (Colin Firth) struggles to lead his people with a stammer.

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We do more than connect people and places. We take serving our communities to new heights.

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AUDIO PROGRAMMING

The latest top selling songs from Zune.

The best of current adult pop.

The greatest classic rock hits.

The latest and greatest alternative hits.

The best of current and classic country.

Adele

The UK singer-songwriter is back with the new album 21 that combines her breathtaking vocals with blues and gospel influences. Listen to ‘Rolling In The Deep’ on the Contemporary Pop channel.

The latest in Indie and Modern Rock.

The best of pop music from around the world.

The best from the world The best in music of chamber music. performed on the piano.

The best from the world The latest and top of classical music. selling music for kids.

The best of contemporary jazz.

The best of atmospheric The latest in electronic and new age music. and dance music.

The best from the world of opera.

The latest and classics from moviez soundtracks.

The best in comedy.

Far East Movement

The latest and greatest in world music.

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The latest and greatest in R&B and soul.

Combining Pop and Hip Hop, Far East Movement took off with their hit song ‘Like A G6.’ Listen to it on the Top Zune Songs channel.

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Zune and United bring you a sample of the music available to Zune users—on their PC, Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 and Zune media players. Learn more about Zune music and video entertainment at www.zune.net/united.

Find your aircraft model on the grid below to find the Zune channel that’s right for you. CHANNEL

777 (2-CABIN)

SELECT A320

A319 & A320

747

757/767 (2-CABIN)

1 movie (english)

movie (english)

2 top songs in zune

top songs in zune

movie (dubbed)

top songs in zune

3 contemporary pop

contemporary pop

movie (dubbed)

contemporary pop

4 classical

classical

5 new wave

new wave

6 country

country

unavailable

country

7 classic rock

classic rock

unavailable

classic rock

8 kids

electronic/dance

unavailable

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kids

9 flight deck

flight deck

contemporary jazz/flight deck

10 indie/modern rock

movie (dubbed)

top songs in zune

movie (dubbed)

11 world pop

kids

indie/modern rock

kids

12 new age

new age

13 r&b/soul

contemporary jazz

country

chamber music

14 electronic/dance

indie/modern rock

classic rock

world music

15 chamber music

chamber music

kids

16 piano jazz 17 opera 18 soundtracks 19 comedy

flight deck Listen for your flight number to hear live communication between the flight deck and FAA air traffic control. This feature, unique to United, may not be available on all flights, including oceanic crossings with limited audio communication. Available at your captain’s discretion.

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Like what you hear? Get all the music offered here today plus unlimited access to millions of other songs with a Zune® Pass music subscription.* Visit zune.net/zunepass to try it free for 14-days. *Zune Pass is a monthly music subscription, available in the United States, UK, France, Italy and Spain. Available content may vary over time.

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Grow your business in Africa. We have. Daily nonstop service to Lagos, Nigeria, from Washington Dulles.

We’re proud to announce additional service to Africa, with daily flights between Lagos, Nigeria, and Washington Dulles. Planes flying this route feature our new international first and business class cabins, with true 180° flat bed seats, 15" personal entertainment systems, and menus from world-renowned chef Charlie Trotter. For more information, go to united.com/lagos.

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THIS IS THE BAG

that holds the computer with the presentation that will win us the business and get me promoted.

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SAO TOME & PRINCIPE

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Campo Grande PARAGUAY

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Hermosillo Sydney

CHILE

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Brasilia Goiania Belo Horizonte

Santa Cruz

Papeete

Niue

1:00

Brisbane Gold Coast

FRENCH POLYNESIA

Nuku’ Alofa

Noumea

Melbourne

FIJI

NEW CALEDONIA

Adelaide

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WESTERN SAMOA

GEORGIATbilisi

GREECE

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Barcelona

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Lisbon

WASHINGTON, DC (DULLES)

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This form is in two parts. Please complete both the Arrival Record (Items 1 through 17) and the Departure Record (Items 18 through 21). When all items are completed, present this form to the CBP Officer. Item 9 - If you are entering the United States by land, enter LAND in this space. If you are entering the United States by ship, enter SEA in this space. 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3) Privacy Act Notice: Information collected on this form is required by Title 8 of the U.S. Code, including the INA (8 U.S.C. 1103, 1187), and 8 CFR 235.1, 264, and 1235.1. The purposes for this collection are to give the terms of admission and document the arrival and departure of nonimmigrant aliens to the U.S. The information solicited on this form may be made available to other government agencies for law enforcement purposes or to assist DHS in determining your admissibility. All nonimmigrant aliens seeking admission to the U.S., unless otherwise exempted, must provide this information. Failure to provide this information may deny you entry to the United States and result in your removal. CBP Form I-94 (05/08) OMB No. 1651-0111

Arrival Record Admission Number

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1. Family Name 3. Birth Date (DD/MM/YY)

Newark (Liberty)

New Haven Stamford New York (Penn Station)

Philadelphia Wilmington Washington, DC

ATLANTIC OCEAN

5. Sex (Male or Female)

6. Passport Issue Date (DD/MM/YY)

7. Passport Expiration Date (DD/MM/YY)

8. Passport Number

9. Airline and Flight Number

10. Country Where You Live

11. Country Where You Boarded

12. City Where Visa Was Issued

13. Date Issued (DD/MM/YY)

14. Address While in the United States (Number and Street) 15. City and State 16. Telephone Number in the U.S. Where You Can be Reached 17. Email Address

CBP Form I-94 (05/08)

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection

OMB No. 1651-0111

Departure Record Admission Number

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18. Family Name

EXPEDITED PASSPORT CONTROL AND CUSTOMS CLEARANCE IN THE U.S.—GLOBAL ENTRY™

Train Routes

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Type or print legibly with pen in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Use English. Do not write on the back of this form.

All passengers (or one per family) are required to complete a Customs Declaration before arrival in the U.S. Write in English, in capital letters. Be sure to include the street name and number, city and state of your address in the U.S. If you are transiting through the U.S., you may write TRANSIT and your ﬁnal destination country. Please read both sides of the declaration and place your signature at the bottom of the form.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) offers the Global Entry™ program in order to expedite the processing of pre-approved, low-risk international travelers entering the United States. Upon returning from international travel, Global Entry™-enrolled travelers may bypass the regular passport control line and proceed to the Global Entry™ kiosk. Global Entry™ program participants scan their machine-readable passport, U.S. permanent resident card or U.S. visa on the kiosk, place their fingertips on the scanner for fingerprint verification and make a customs declaration. The kiosk issues the traveler a transaction receipt and directs the traveler to baggage claim and exit. The following travelers are eligible for enrollment in Global Entry™: • Citizens and Residents of the U.S. • Citizens of Mexico who hold a U.S. visa • Citizens of the Netherlands who are enrolled in Privium • NEXUS members • SENTRI members Application for enrollment in the Global Entry™ program is available at the Global On-Line Enrollment System (GOES): https://goes-app.cbp.dhs.gov/. It costs only US$100 which covers enrollment in the program for a five year period. The government will review the applicant’s information while a background investigation is conducted. Applicants undergo an interview with CBP officers at an Enrollment Center in the U.S. before final approval is granted. Global Entry™ is available in the following cities: Atlanta (ATL), Boston (BOS), Chicago (ORD-O’Hare), Dallas (DFW), Detroit (DTW), Ft. Lauderdale (FLL), Honolulu (HNL), Houston (IAH-Intercontinental), Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA), New York (JFK), Newark (EWR-Liberty), Orlando (MCO-International and SFBSanford), Philadelphia (PHL), Seattle (SEA), San Francisco (SFO), San Juan (SJU), and Washington, DC (IAD-Dulles). For detailed information, go to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection site, globalentry.gov

OMB No. 1651-0111

Welcome to the United States I-94 Arrival/Departure Record Instructions This form must be completed by all persons except U.S. Citizens, returning resident aliens, aliens with immigrant visas, and Canadian Citizens visiting or in transit.

4. Country of Citizenship

Manchester

MISSISSIPPI

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection

All travelers who hold a U.S. visa are required to complete an I-94 Arrival/Departure Record (one per person, including infants). Write in English, in capital letters. Be sure to include the street name and number, city and state of your address in the U.S. If you are transiting through the U.S., you may write TRANSIT and your final destination country. The Customs and Border Protection officer will place the I-94 Departure Record in your passport after inspection. Make sure you return the Departure Record to the airline representative before boarding your return flight.

2. First (Given) Name

Portland

N.H.

I-94 ARRIVAL/ DEPARTURE RECORD

CUSTOMS DECLARATION

V T.

Austin

Honolulu

LOUISIANA

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International Arrivals Suite United Premier Check-In Interterminal Shuttle Bus Stop/Train Stop

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TERMINAL C Continental United United Express

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Concourse L Elevated Airport Transport System

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United Air Canada

Train

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United Air Canada

TE R M I N A L 1 Continental US Airways

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Gates 20-36

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Gates G91-G102

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A22

A15

A21

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A32

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B35-B51 Shuttle Bus

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US Airways 1-4

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CLEVELAND HOPKINS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

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C18

Continental Continental Express United United Express Air Canada

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C19

C11

C14

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C21

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TO M B R A D L E Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L TE R M I N A L ANA, Asiana Airlines, EVA Air, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, SWISS, THAI, Turkish Airlines

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71A

67A 67B

60 62 64 66 68A

D3 D2

D4 D6 D5 2

D7 D9 D8

TE R M I N A L 1 US Airways

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TE R M I N A L 2 Air Canada Air China Air New Zealand Virgin Atlantic

(Lower Level) 4

C26

D10 D12 D11 1 D14

C29

C24

TE R M I N A L 3

C10

C23

LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EasyCheck-in is available at this airport.

Concourse C

69A

TE R M I N A L 4

TE R M I N A L 5

D28

Concourse D

71B 73

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

70A 70B 72

75A 75B 77

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69B TE R M I N A L 6 Continental United Copa Airlines

74 76

TE R M I N A L 7 TE R M I N A L 8 United United

Continental Express Continental Connection

D25 D21 D17

US Airways and some Continental international flights arrive at Concourse A. NRT

Fourth Floor 43 42 44

41 38

45 46

GUM

TOKYO/NARITA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

35 36

Third Floor 27

Satellite 2

Security Checkpoint

MAIN TERMINAL Continental

32 47

CafÃ©

North Wing

South Wing TERMINAL 1 Continental United Air Canada Air China 51 ANA 52 53 Asiana Airlines 54 Austrian Airlines Lufthansa 55 Scandinavian Airlines 56 Singapore Airlines SWISS 57 THAI Turkish Airlines 58

FRA

GUAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

5 17

Food Court

19 21

20 12

(Lower Level)

15 11

Satellite 1

Air New Zealand and EGYPTAIR flights arrive/depart at Terminal 2.

LHR

LONDON/HEATHROW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

United Aegean Airlines Air New Zealand Asiana Airlines Austrian Airlines

FRANKFURT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

bmi Brussels Airlines Croatia Airlines LOT Polish Airlines Lufthansa

South African Airways SWISS TAM Airlines TAP Portugal US Airways

Heathrow Express Sky Line Train Gates E1-E26

Gates D1-D54

B47 B48 B42

B45 B44 B43 B1-B41

Pier D

B27 B28 B23

Pier B

B26

B25 B24 B22

TERMINAL 1

Lufthansa Tower Lounge (Level 5)

B10-B20

er C

Gates C1-C9

TE R M I N A L 2

Pier E

B46

Gates A1-A65

Pedestrian Tunnel

Continental United Aegean Airlines Adria Airways Air Canada Air China ANA Asiana Airlines

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Austrian Airlines Croatia Airlines EGYPTAIR LOT Polish Airlines Lufthansa Scandinavian Airlines Singapore Airlines

South African Airways Spanair SWISS TAM Airlines TAP Portugal THAI Turkish Airlines US Airways

TERMINAL 5

TERMINAL 3 Air Canada Air China ANA Blue1 EGYPTAIR Emirates Scandinavian Airlines Singapore Airlines THAI Turkish Airlines Virgin Atlantic

Transfer Shuttle

TERMINAL 4 Continental Gates 1-25

Secureside and non-secureside buses serve all terminals

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Maybe it’s time to outsource… your dating life

Navigating today’s complex dating scene can be daunting, and busy professionals often wonder who to turn to for advice. We sat down with It’s Just Lunch dating expert PJ Osgood to discuss the difﬁculties of dating for singles on the go. Here’s some of the savvy advice she gives to her clients.

Why is dating so challenging these days for career-focused singles? Let’s face it—dating is challenging for everyone! Throw a demanding professional or family life into the mix, and you can understand why someone hires IJL. Dating feels difﬁcult because time is valuable, and it isn’t easy to efﬁciently manage a fruitful dating life. With our help, clients go out on dates with someone who already meets their essential requirements. That way, the only thing left to be determined is the chemistry.

What type of person uses It’s Just Lunch? Clients come to me because the process of finding someone on their own can be overwhelming. Meeting people through family, friends, or online requires a lot of time and often doesn’t deliver results. Instead, they join IJL because they are ready to be proactive and want to take a professional approach to ﬁnding their compatible match.

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