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CAIRO. The Mena House Oberoi (oberoi hotels.com is one of the world's exceptional resorts, built in 1869 as a royal lodge for a khedive. The interior is a spectacular blend of Moorish, Ottoman and Coptic design. Most striking is the site--half a mile from the Great Pyramid of Cheops...
...Crimson handled the potent Quaker interior game well, again containing Penn’s frontcourt tandem of Ugonna Onyekwe and Koko Archibong and outscoring the Quakers 26-10 in the paint. However, the focus on the inside game allowed Penn’s perimeter shooters to get open looks all night. They capitalized, shooting an astounding 52 percent from three-point range...
...lamplit Night scene from the Four Times of the Day series, painted in strong pastels, vibrates with rays of pale yellow light in his signature staccato brushstroke. Flanking it are two other night scenes: the Rembrandt Workshop's The Holy Family at Night (1638-40), a large Dutch interior plunged in darkness, with a young mother sitting near a baby's cradle, reading aloud to an older woman by candlelight; and Van Gogh's 1885 The Potato Eaters, his first major figure painting, so dark that its five peasants, seated at a table beneath a gaslight, seem covered in coal...
Start with an outmoded power generation plant. Hire a high-profile architect. Remove the unused equipment and renovate the interior. Add a collection of contemporary works of art. The result? The bankside Tate Modern in London—or Harvard’s new museum for contemporary art on the Charles River...
...essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross Ice Shelf like frozen rivers...