"There is a fear that Hell's Kitchen would revert to the problematic area that was back 10 or 20 years ago, " said Jesse Clinton, president of the West 44th Street Better Block Association.

WSJ: Complaints Over Hell's Kitchen Bars

What a pity, thinks the student, that the professor, risen from a fatherless childhood in New York's Hell's Kitchen to become a seemingly permanent star of the Senate, should be intent on retiring in 2000.

ECONOMIST: The incomparable Daniel Patrick

The result of the singer's ambition is " Itica Pritica" (the "C" sounds like a "K"), an exhibition of more than 20 silk-screened works by Matthews and close friend Beezy Bailey at the Robert Miller Gallery in Hell's Kitchen.

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While his friends from the Vienna University of Economics and Business got set up in corporate apartments, Mr. Hollein turned down an offer from McKinsey, rented a place in Hell's Kitchen and set out to learn all he could about curating and marketing art.

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While the entire system is still prototypical, it currently works "over a 35 square kilometer area in Stockholm, " and designers are currently testing interest in other locales throughout the UK. Personally, we can't wait to see the variations in storylines while cruising down the 101 versus the pits of Hell's Kitchen, but we'll probably just wait for third party reports of the later.

ENGADGET: Backseat Playground to integrate GPS into in-car gaming

Whether this list leads you to a hilltop spa in Mexico, a helicopter-access-only slope in the Canadian Rockies or a kitchen filled with Italian grandmas hell-bent on perfecting your pesto is up to you.

CNN: Hard to find, but totally worth it