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...think that the height of contemporary urbanity is to festoon the living room in December. "I'd always heard of Christmas but never celebrated it," says Wang Hui, who came to Yiwu looking for factory work. "On Christmas Eve, when the stringed lights go on, I'll walk downtown with my girlfriends and shop for gifts...
...sober attraction is the city's burgeoning art scene. Two new museums have recently opened: the Sculpture Garden, adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in the city's warehouse district. From downtown, spend $1.25 for a 25-minute trip north on the new Canal Street cable car to the bucolic Sculpture Garden. More than 50 bronze and stainless steel pieces--including Venus Victorious, by French impressionist Pierre Renoir--adorn the garden's lagoons and pine groves...
After that, you can take the cable car back toward the Mississippi River and transfer to the St. Charles Avenue line south to the Ogden Museum, home of the largest collection of Southern-themed art in the U.S. (It's a dense city; from downtown, it won't take more than 10 minutes to get there.) The museum's five floors narrate Southern history through paintings and photography. A highlight is a painting called Trinity,which depicts Jesus flanked by two other radiant "gods" of the South, Elvis Presley and Robert...
...Battalion of the 153rd Infantry Regiment on a patrol through the heart of Adhamiya, Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood. The cause of Stubbs' concern: it's only 7:30 p.m., and the streets around Abu Hanifa Mosque are empty and dark. "This place is usually buzzing like downtown Manhattan late into the night," says Stubbs, 32, a native of Searcy, Ark. "If people have gone home this early, they must know something nasty is about to happen...
Central bankers are a risk-averse tribe. But Sinan al-Shabibi risks his life every time he drives to his office in downtown Baghdad. Government officials are killed or kidnapped every day by insurgents who see them as traitors for cooperating with the American "occupiers." "If I told you that sort of thing doesn't worry me, I would not be telling the truth," says al-Shabibi, 63. "[The insurgents] make my job more, shall we say, interesting?" Since he took over as central-bank governor a year ago, al-Shabibi, a former economist at the Geneva-based U.N. Conference...