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...Helmand: The Soldier's Story," an exhibition running at Britain's National Army Museum in London for the next 18 months, troops from the 16 Air Assault Brigade recount their experiences on the frontlines. The exhibit, which may be the first mounted during an ongoing conflict, was curated almost exclusively by the soldiers themselves. "Everything has that real flavor, which you wouldn't get if a production company put it together," says Major Alex Parks, a soldier-cum-curator who ran operations in Helmand...
...tourist traveling on dilapidated trains to and from London would quickly discover, Britain's domestic railway system has been in a state of slow decline ever since the sun set on the British empire after World War II. But after being maligned for years as overpriced, cramped and uncomfortable, rail travel in Britain is about to make a comeback - in the glorious shape of London's revamped St. Pancras station...
...object of the makeover is restore a golden age of rail travel, in which the train station is "a place to be seen," says Ben Ruse, a spokesman for the redevelopment. Not only that, St. Pancras International, which opens on November 14, will consecrate the integration of Britain's lumbering railways into Europe's high-speed network, cutting travel time from London to Paris, under the British Channel, to 135 minutes...
...First opened in 1868, the brief of its architect, William Henry Barlow, had been to build the world's fastest and grandest railway station to reflect Britain's international pre-eminence. "St Pancras was symbolic of the history of rail travel in the U.K.," says Ruse. "It was a bygone era of success in rail - both in engineering achievement and architectural brilliance...
...thought modern Britain showed the best of itself in the week after Diana died: a feeling and a compassion and an openness to emotional expression that it had for too long kept bottled up. But perhaps--as stock markets stumble and wars drag on--these are sterner times than the mid-1990s, ones when the virtues of reason, reserve and order become apparent. You can't fuel a society on flowers alone...