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...Xujiahui district, this requirement has led to doubled electricity consumption, not only from the lights themselves but from the air-conditioning needed during the day to cool the overheated building. All in all, Shanghai's much-vaunted nocturnal skyline?100 times brighter than the Australian capital of Canberra's, crow local urban planners?consumes the same amount of electricity as the city receives from the Three Gorges Dam, now in its first stage of operation. And, as the vanguard of all things cool in China, Shanghai has inspired similarly wasteful lighting schemes in other metropolises such as Tianjin, Nanjing...
...After all the contentiousness about current politics, a celebration of a grand old style. The closing-night party featured a vivid display of fireworks and a lavish concert of Cole Porter songs rendered by the singing stars - Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Natalie Cole, Alanis Morrissette and Sheryl Crow - of the new Porter biography ?De-Lovely.? Cannes 2004 went out on a swellegant, elegant high note...
...ironic that, in this fiftieth year since Brown, that de jure black-white segregation has morphed into de facto black-white-Hispanic segregation today. With it have come some of the same problems that existed during the Jim Crow era—functional illiteracy, diminished motivation and under-performance on academic and employment testing...
...foyer of Joseph Elliott's home in Summerton, S.C., is a portrait of the Confederate Army general, Robert E. Lee. Nearby, however, Elliott just as proudly displays newspaper clippings of his late great-uncle, a real-life Atticus Finch who defended blacks in the era of Jim Crow. Elliott, 64, has struggled a lifetime to reconcile these mixed images of the South. But one picture noticeably absent from his gallery is that of his late grandfather, R.M. Elliott, a wealthy sawmill owner and former Summerton school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide bus transportation for black students...
...lecture noted the shift in the politics of affirmative action that had taken place during the latter half of the 1990s and insisted that the current generation of students re-engage with the concerns of his generation. As he reflected at one point, his own personal experience with Jim Crow was thankfully part of the past—and yet it was an instructive, pointed lesson that cannot be replicated to galvanize contemporary civil rights activism. Perhaps South Africa can provide this contemporary catalyst...