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...there is grave concern about its ability to afford the significant infrastructure and security requirements. American Olympic officials are betting they can sell the IOC on Chicago's robust sports culture and the city's relatively harmonious ethnic and racial diversity. The Olympic Village is to be built along Lake Michigan, just south of downtown. An 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium is to be built in Washington Park, which is tucked between a middle-income neighborhood of rowhouses and a rather bleak stretch of Chicago's South Side. Officials here also will play up Chicago's extensive public transportation network...
...space, broadcasting "immortal revolutionary paeans" to the heavens, both Korean and U.S. monitors said that the missile had failed to release anything into orbit. "Stage one of the missile fell into the Sea of Japan/East Sea," reads an official report from the United States Northern Command. "The remaining stages along with the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean...
...Shore Limited service all the way from Chicago to Boston; the company has just added sleeper cars for the entire 20-plus-hour journey. For $264 and up each-way, you can kick it old school and feel good about being a greener traveler while being rocked to sleep along the rails...
...easy to let people know you've arrived, but when flying abroad, what with the time difference and the roaming charges on your cell phone, it can be tricky. ArrivedOK lets you automatically tell the home team that you've landed, via text or email. Register your flight, along with the destination airport, estimated arrival time, along with any phone numbers or email addresses to which you'd like to send a notification. The ArrivedOK system tracks your cell phone and when you turn it on after landing it instantly sends "Arrived OK" messages to people on your list...
...Tianyu is not short on natural history. In one hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different parts of China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu...