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...home, and, best of all, it doesn't rely on a product found in some of the least stable, most despotic nations on earth--you start thinking maybe it was a good idea. So why did General Motors, having invested a billion dollars in electric cars, not only pull the plug on them but also recall and destroy virtually every...
...muses. "But you know it isn't a social-security center." You may not even think museum on second glance, for this building intentionally swears off the pomp and grandeur that is de rigueur for big French state projects. As well it should, for its delicate purpose is to pull together France's collection of 300,000 artistic and cultural artifacts from Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania without a whiff of ex-imperial condescension. It will be the most visible Parisian legacy of Jacques Chirac, who is winding up 12 years as President and was Paris' mayor...
...subcontinent's New York City, Bombay is built not on tradition but on drive. "Pull anyone out of any part of India, and put them in Bombay," says Rothschild's Bhandarkar, "and he'll acquire that sense of purpose." India's great industrialists--the Tatas, the Ambanis, the Godrejs--all began in Bombay. The city's stock exchanges account for 92% of the country's total share turnover, and the nation's central bank and hundreds of brokerages and investors have set up their Indian headquarters there, including such global powerhouses as HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Bombay...
...revealed slowly, even shyly, from darkness to light, like the onset of a full moon-in Fijian, a vula. For presenting Pacific life on stage, there would seem to be no better guide: in the islands, time doesn't run to a clock, but rather follows the lunar pull of the tides. And in Vula, at the Sydney Opera House until June 25, the moon watches over the gentle unfolding of life, from kava ceremony to funeral song. In many Pacific cultures, the moon is also seen as a female deity, and in Vula womanhood is worshiped just as fully...
...system was designed to automate the process and improve on it, using two massive fans to pull air toward the cold point. The intrusive approach scandalized those who had worked so hard to figure out a more modest solution to earlier problems in the cave. "Our idea was always to be as parsimonious as possible," says Pierre Vidal, a retired researcher who worked in Lascaux for decades. "This thing seemed more like a central air-conditioning system...