How to land jobs similar to TV characters'

Ever watch "Grey's Anatomy" and wonder if you, too, could help save lives? Think you have what it takes to create ad slogans with the best of them a la "Mad Men"? Whether your TV idol is Will Schuester ("Glee"), Dwight Schrute ("The Office"), or Temperance Brennan ("Bones"), following in your favorite character's career footsteps is definitely possible... if you're willing to put in some work to get there."I think that no matter the job or industry, you have to have the right combination of...

The world's most noteworthy new hotels

For our annual It List, a compendium of the world’s most noteworthy new hotels, Travel+Leisure editors and writers logged thousands of miles in search of the next best new hotels for you to lay your head.Cosmopolitan Las VegasFinally, a Vegas hotel for design geeks and food nerds. Guest rooms have Fornasetti wallpaper in the closets, furniture with solid modern lines, a generous soaking tub, C.O. Bigelow toiletries, art you will actually think about, and stacks of Phaidon books on the bedside. Venture...

Newest 'X-Men' can't measure up to others

LOS ANGELES - Young X-Men don't have the same box-office superpowers as their older selves. "X-Men: First Class" had a solid No. 1 opening with a $56 million weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the 20th Century Fox prequel chronicling the formative years of the comic-book mutants found smaller audiences than the franchise's first four big-screen adventures, which featured older versions of the X-Men. Debut weekends for the last three "X-Men" flicks ranged from $85.1 million to $102.8...