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...bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet for a cup of tea or a plate of food from a buffet spread. The casualty estimates fluctuated all day. On Friday, the U.S. military said that 22 people were injured and one civilian killed, Mohammed...
...decided to join a tennis club instead, which was, at one point, my only contact with mankind." While the house is decorated to resemble a country retreat in, say, Connecticut, Simon's seven-room Manhattan duplex is just the opposite: sleekly art deco, almost Californian, with a sun-flooded atrium at penthouse level, offering sweeping views in three directions of Park Avenue and the city skyline...
...none of the critics said the place made them queasy. Then the visitors came. As they climbed to the upper floors of the titanium-and-granite-clad structure, which echoes the silhouette of the Rockies, some began feeling dizzy and nauseated. The likely culprits: a plunging 100-ft. atrium and walls slanted at odd angles. "If you have walls tilting toward or away from you, that disrupts people's balance," says University of Colorado architecture professor Taisto Makela. Of the 11 students he recently took to the museum, three felt dizzy...
...www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium. And the Moroccan and French food is delicate and tasty. 55 Souk Hal Fassi, Kat Bennahïd, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 81 90; www.foundouk.com
...Panic descended on the sprawling campus, which serves 10,000 students, as the gunman randomly shot at students near the entrance atrium and the adjoining cafeteria...