Those who want to lock in the hot-ticket 2003s should shop around, something Internet sites like Wine-Searcher.com have made almost ridiculously easy.

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The connected yurts house civilized bathrooms, some picnic tables, a rental shop and a cafeteria where the only hot dishes are those warmed in a microwave by customers themselves.

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Also of note: an ambitious onsite bakery (complete with a Twitter feed about what's hot from the oven) and gourmet shop stocking Prestat chocolates, Neal's Yard Dairy cheeses, and fruit and vegetables from the kitchen garden at Conran's country home.

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On the Web only two years, Zazzle is a hot shop in Palo Alto, California with two bustling Silicon Valley warehouses.

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Keeping it simple is critical to the suddenly roaring success of Cryptic Studios in San Jose, California, a hot shop founded and majority-owned by Lewis, 32.

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Last month, workers at Agency.com, a hot Web design shop in New York with a reputation for coddling the help, got a mass e-mail from the office of boss Chan Suh that was supposed to list unused vacation time.

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