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...rapid economic liberalization has multiplied the options for visitors. Deluxe accommodation ranges from meticulously renovated Ottoman mansions to modern luxury hotels. A classy evening meal can be enjoyed at the renovated Maiden's Tower, which dates from the 6th century, or Changa, an oasis of minimalist chic serving up award-winning fusion cuisine...
...applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes?" Own A Piece Of The Rock Prudential Securities, one of the world's largest insurance firms, lost a class-action suit in Ohio, to 250 individual investors who accused their broker of selling stock without permission. The $261.7 million damage award is a record; Prudential says it will appeal. Who Wants To Be Employed? In a move that comments on the quality of German TV as much as on its economy, Neun Live will launch a game show this fall in which the top prize is ... a job. The concept...
...Spain. "It took a long time for people to understand that what I do is not in the realm of the impossible, but the realm of the possible. I also live in Britain but am not of it, even though I have been here 28 years. And those who award the commissions are not used to women architects. All barriers, but fundamentally it was because my work was not normative." Normative? "Well, ordinary, everyday stuff." Bilbao has helped. "Clients see it's possible to do something extraordinary that is not repetition." Hadid's extraordinary designs are now on order...
...created perhaps one of the greatest pieces of art in the last 20 years—Magnolia, a film that weaves a beautiful tableau of the ups and downs of human existence and, ultimately, of redemption. Though in some respects a huge critical success (it won the Golden Bear Award at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival) the film was met with a mixed reaction—some loved it because of its daring and compassion, while others felt that it was nonsensical (it features a musical interlude and the strangest storm you will ever see) and at over three hours...
...Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is so important that the Nobel committee decided Monday to award this year's prize in Physiology or Medicine to three researchers who have uncovered its genetic basis. H. Robert Horvitz, 55, an American who works at the Massachusetts Institute of technology will share the award with two Britons: Sydney Brenner, 75, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and Sir John Sulston, 60, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in Cambridge, England...