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...abandoned houses are marked with crude red Xs, their windows spray-painted with the number of bodies found inside. The French Quarter and the Garden District lie dark and deserted, a wasteland of downed power lines, cars with flat tires, massive Spanish oaks toppled at their roots and scattered reminders of the city's former self--a cookbook open to a recipe for ham croquettes, strings of Mardi Gras beads. What little life remains in New Orleans is largely devoted to counting the dead, a task so vast and grim that even the city's coroner, Frank Minyard, doesn...
...Tampa Bay, Fla., as well as Chicago, Dallas and San Diego on a mission to safeguard the 27-story Hibernia National Bank headquarters on Union Street. Wearing heavy camouflage uniforms, black vests and helmets, they carried Steyr-AUG rifles equipped with flashlights that allowed them to work in the dark. In stifling heat, the teams checked each room for looters and squatters, using a series of rhythmic chants to inform other team members of what they had found, as well as to indicate when backup was required. No man entered a room alone. "We expect [the looters] are gone...
...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder pastry chefs at work through a glass wall. tel: (43-1) 5351 7170; www.demel.at. Hotel Sacher The Sacher torte, first served in 1832, is a dense chocolate sponge creation with an apricot jam filling, dark chocolate glaze and the only Viennese cake traditionally served with cream (mit Schlag). A chocolate medallion pressed into the glaze is the official sign of authenticity. This elegant place, with dark red carpets and soft furnishings, sets the standard: their torte is still based on the 1832 handwritten recipe, which...
...Fort Edmonton Park filming the title role in The Assassination of Jesse James (and not, as it may appear here, a Ralph Lauren ad). The Calgary Sun has devoted six writers--10% of its editorial staff--to coverage of the star, who dyed his golden locks to play the dark outlaw. The Sun's rival, the Calgary Herald, set up a hotline for tipsters to call in their Pitt sightings. The Herald updates readers almost daily on Pitt's outings, such as a trip to a local dinosaur museum with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie...
...took the Sistine as an opportunity of asserting the power of what his rival could not do: "Michelangelo, who was always in competition with Leonardo, wanted to reaffirm the traditional buon fresco technique. The Sistine is that affirmation." True fresco did not include the use of glue sizing and dark washes a secco. "No other fresco painter applied such a glue," says Head Restorer Colalucci, "so why should Michelangelo have done so? He knew very well that the final result could not have lasted long. To suggest that he gave his fresco a glue sizing is an insult...