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...those platforms have built-in advantages that YouTube lacks. Through Apple, movies can be watched on the computer screen and on devices like Apple TV and the iPhone. Amazon has a healthy customer base already built in, and Netflix has been aggressive about offering its service through third-party devices. Subscribers can select and watch films through certain DVD players and gaming platforms like Microsoft's Xbox. There's no suggestion that YouTube's selection of movies will be watchable on anything but a computer screen, at least in the immediate future...
However, while climate scientists have built a nearly airtight case that climate change is happening and that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are the primary cause, the IPCC's error demonstrates that it is still difficult to make tight predictions about the future - especially on a regional or local level...
...stories from 35 nations and regions from Albania to Wales, it's like a Eurail pass that lets you tour a continent's worth of psychological landscapes. Trying to take in all of them in one sitting can induce the armchair equivalent of museum fatigue; this is a volume built for browsing. You can get halfway through a story, put it down, pick it back up again and ask, Where was I? Oh, right - Denmark. (See the top 10 fiction books...
Although Modernism's popularity has been a boon to tourist-depleted Palm Springs, the city itself has been slow at times to preserve its own architectural wonders. As recently as 2003, the demolition of the historic (circa 1948) Biltmore Hotel was easily green-lit. The Oasis Hotel, a masterpiece built in 1925 by Lloyd Wright (Frank's son), is now simply an obscure, nonfunctioning Art Deco tower left standing in the city's downtown. More than half a dozen other historic Palm Springs inns have also been razed in recent years...
...hour drive from Shanghai, Moganshan is a once glamorous hill-station retreat that is just beginning to reawaken. In the early decades of the 20th century, foreign residents of Shanghai - later followed by rich Chinese families - flocked to these hills for relief during the humid summers. They built sprawling houses complete with swimming pools, tennis courts and dance floors. After the communist takeover, Moganshan retreated into obscurity, with many of the mansions crumbling into ruin. But in the past decade, visitors have been drawn back to it by its serene beauty, long hikes and, of course, proximity to Shanghai...