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...prices have doubled in three years in parts of central Shanghai. Dusty villas in the fashionable French Concession are selling for millions of dollars, even if they have rotting floorboards and cracking foundations. In December a 1,110-sq-m penthouse complete with an indoor pool and a 21-inch LCD TV in the bathroom made headlines when it sold for a record $4.3 million. Just the right to tour the lavish apartment in Shimao Riviera Garden cost $600 per VIP ticket...
MacDonald ignited the Harvard-Vermont fans during a first intermission promotion when she propelled a puck from center ice into an eight-inch hole at the goal line and won two tickets to Tuesday’s Women’s Beanpot final...
...preparation for the World Trade Center project. Aside from any specific monuments, every neighborhood remembers in its bones the catastrophe of World War II. Long streets where no old buildings survived lead to others where a single Wilhelmine facade is wedged between stretches of postwar Housing Emergency Modern. Every inch of the city tells you what happened there. Libeskind says it also teaches another lesson: "You can fill in all the sites, but that doesn't mean you've filled the void." Libeskind moves a lot, but that's a lesson he carries with him everywhere...
...treatises. His engineering and hydraulic projects either failed or were not started. Very few of his machines would have worked either, and, of course, the famous ornithopters, helicopters and gliders that made him, in the eyes of an earlier generation, a sort of quattrocento Orville Wright never moved an inch into the air. Probably not even the crank-propelled tanks that he hoped would creep like lethal cone snails across the battlefields of northern Italy would have harmed anyone, even assuming that their sweating and straining occupants could have got their wheels to go round at all, which is beyond...
...shoes - lots and lots of glorious shoes. The details in a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes can vary greatly: the elegant ones - plenty of satin stilettos for brides-to-be; the funky ones - his take on the Timberland boot, the Tims (picture a suede work boot with a four-inch heel; now picture it on Jennifer Lopez); and the subversive ones - his personal favorite is a shoe of steel, aluminum and titanium that never made it to production because the razor-sharp heel could pierce someone's hand. Creations like these make women fanatically loyal to Blahnik. Which is ironic...