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...Perhaps appropriately, the Normandie ended its days in New York. While being refitted as a troop ship in 1942, it caught fire, capsized and sank in the Hudson River at 47th Street. At war's end it was sold for scrap. But along with other reminders that the two great cities were once joined at the hip of all that was hip, the Normandie lives on in wood, silver and memory. Rivalries end, style endures...
...They should take note. The next culture-and-design rivalry will probably involve Beijing and Shanghai. Masterpieces by American creators of fashion, furniture and consumer electronics are already being replicated in the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas and sold at big-box stores. Meanwhile, Chinese painters like Yue Minjun and Zeng Fangzhi are pulling in big bucks at auction, and Chinese filmmakers, writers and musicians are not far behind...
...very good reason. Despite the caps of ice in Mars' polar regions and the deposits of ice thought to lie beneath the soil, the planet is a desiccated place. But that doesn't mean Mars wasn't once wet, and its topography - scarred with what appear to be ancient river channels and dry seabed - suggests that the planet once fairly sloshed with water. If you want to find signs of ancient life, the key is to follow that water - or at least the places it used...
...avoid traveling to the downtown Wal-Mart for groceries, they say, mainly because it's often overcrowded and lacks basic products. "It's a horrible mess," Jones said on a recent Sunday morning, standing outside her family's church in the Lower Ninth Ward. She travels across the Mississippi River into neighboring Jefferson Parish for groceries. "We bring our tax dollars into other parishes, which is horrible. We shouldn't have to live like this," she says. "But unfortunately, our state and federal government has let us down. If we lived in another state, would we be suffering like this...
Though it was nearing midnight and the temperature was sub-zero, Antoine hastily made his friend put on a jacket and run outside to the frozen Charles River down the street. Amid the snow and ice, the two friends stepped cautiously onto the frozen river and back to its bank. There they talked and laughed...