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Buenos Aires continues to draw food lovers, design buffs and party people with its riotous night life, fashion-forward styling and a favorable exchange rate. If the mood strikes, rent a paddle boat inside the 400-acre Parque Tres de Febrero. Photo: Horacio Paone for The New York Times Cobbled San Telmo may be known for staid antiques shops and a Sunday street fair, but there's new life in this old barrio. Photo: Horacio Paone for The New York Times

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What is Street Scenes? (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times) Southern California is a vast land of neighborhoods. Drive Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles, for example, and you'll encounter industrial blocks, the garment district, Koreatown, West L.A. bungalows and the burgeoning entertainment district at the eastern end of Santa Monica. But most of us don't spend time driving from neighborhood to neighborhood--so L.A. Times photographers have done it for us, highlighting a variety of neighborhoods, ranging from the Fairfax District to Newport Harbor.

February 2, 2010 Russia’s Evolution, Seen Through Golden Arches By  ANDREW E. KRAMER MOSCOW — Viktor A. Semenov was growing lettuce on a collective farm outside Moscow in 1990 when a representative of  McDonald’s  stopped by. The company had just opened a restaurant. Could he sell it a few boxes of lettuce each week? Mr. Semenov’s assistant turned it down. One restaurant was too small an order. “I said, ‘My friend! You see how many McDonald’s there are in the West?’ ” Mr. Semenov recalled recently. “I said, ‘Sell them lettuce at any price. It’s our new strategy.’ ” With that, Mr. Semenov started a company that has all but cornered the market on packaged fresh vegetables in  Russia . With a buy-one-get-one-free deal on hamburgers and a traditional Russian accordion band, McDonald’s celebrated on Monday the 20th anniversary of the opening of its first store in the Soviet Union, a restaurant that drew long lines. But the company celebrated a different milesto...