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• Gorgeous fall foliage
But everything from its tiles to its roofs is designed with sustainability in mind. They’re energy-efficient and built to last hundreds of years instead of a generation or two. “A few years from now, the standard roof would be in a landfill ...
• Life in a Chinese village en route to Beijing
There are still chores to be done but the highlight is a special, speedy Anhui-style version of mahjong, a game of strategy and luck centered around patterned tiles. The noise of the plastic tiles rattling together as they are shuffled or "washed" on ...
• Nonstop Mexico: Fly to the right beach
The 30 rooms at the Hotel Brisas del Mar are accented with Mexican tiles and have hammocks on the balconies (011-52/755-554-2142, hotelbrisasdelmar.com, from $102). Ixtapa, in contrast, was built 36 years ago as part of a government effort to spur ...
• Versace mansion in Fla. now offering tours
The purchase of the neighboring hotel made room for Versace's pool, a centerpiece of the tour, made of more than a million Italian mosaic tiles and 24-karat gold pieces. Its design was inspired by a Versace scarf and was created in Italy, broken down ...
• Over 1,000 melamine babies still in hospitals
It is normally used in making plastics including floor tiles, whiteboards and kitchenware. Door-to-door screening of more than 307,000 Beijing families with children under the age of three found that over 75,000 babies had been fed contaminated milk ...