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...online information site, Conservapedia, was founded to counter Wikipedia's "anti-Christian" and "anti-American" bias. What measures does Wikipedia plan to use to keep bias out of its articles?-Julia T. Quijano, Birmingham, Ala. Well, I think we don't have a liberal bias, and I think they have a conservative bias...
...shirt-sleeved Obama pushed Birmingham civil rights legend Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth along the route in a wheelchair. On the opposite side, Hillary and Bill Clinton linked arms with Al Sharpton and Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights leader who annually organizes the Voting Rights March reenactment...
...look over the big glass display cases that line the office. They're filled with models of projects and proposals that have the kind of silhouettes you used to see in world's fair pavilions but just about nowhere else. Here's their Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England, a billowing form covered with silvery disks. Here's their upcoming museum for Maserati, the Italian car manufacturer, with its lines that any car designer would call aerodynamic. Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model...
Shaped somewhat like a very large bean?an organic form that has turned up more than once in Future Systems designs?the store gave the jumble of downtown Birmingham a glamorous new focal point. For one thing, it's pillowy. Not a word you typically get to use when describing a building; but Future Systems doesn't make typical buildings. And its mostly windowless exterior is covered by 15,000 anodized aluminum disks packed in rows against a field of stucco painted "Yves Klein blue," the dark blue patented by the French artist. Depending on how you think about...
...Birmingham [Alabama] is good...