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With a leap of 14.38m, sophomore Samyr Laine captured 13th in the Men’s triple jump. In the high jump, classmate Clifford Emmanuel was not able to clear the preliminary height of 2.06 meters...
...third Harvard athlete was thrower Christopher Ware, whose best shot put on the day was 15.43 meters, placed 13th despite having back problems that prevented him from competing in the weight throw...
...Paris off entirely from architectural innovation: consider Jean Nouvel's glass-walled Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) along the Seine and I.M. Pei's pyramid at the Louvre (1989). "Nothing is stopping them from making nice things," insists Fabrice Piault, head of an activist neighborhood organization in the 13th arrondissement, where office buildings are filling in the space around the four 79-m towers of the François Mitterrand Library (1995) - a prestige project for which height restrictions didn't apply. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the proposal to raise the roofs...
...bank Crédit Foncier de France and insurance giants Aviva and Generali have moved operations - and jobs - from central Paris to the suburbs. Big projects won't happen in the historic heart of Paris, but rather at the edges: the old industrial quarter along the Seine in the 13th is already under development, and other sites along railroad concentrations in the north and northeast of Paris would be prime candidates. Some architects have argued that well-planned high-rises can help reconnect Paris to its suburbs, now cut off by the belt highway around the city proper. "Of course...
...strung along the sun-drenched beach. DUNHUANG Set amid dramatic white sand dunes in the northwestern province of Gansu, Dunhuang was once one of the main stops along the Silk Road. Nearby are some of the finest frescoes in all of China. Created between the 5th and 13th centuries A.D., these works of art, some of which show signs of Greek influence, depict everything from musical instruments to a dazzling pantheon of deities. If the caves get too stuffy, local guides can arrange for dune surfing and paragliding trips to a nearby oasis called Crescent Lake. LIJIANG This attractive little...