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...there's any city that symbolizes the boldness of the South's economic ascendance, and what's at stake with its decline, it is Atlanta. New condominium projects are scattered across this city's downtown. One of the most striking is the Atlantic Residences, up the street from a faux Arc de Triomphe, a man-made pond, an Ikea and a Target. A sign around the 46-story tower reads: "Luxury residences from the $400s to $800s" ... Spectacular penthouse from $1 million." Just a few months before the building's planned opening, however, the appetite for such excess is disappearing...
...would have been his 90th birthday, the matter is still a delicate one. So those who knew him, and those who were inspired by him, have decided to continue Hu's work in Hong Kong. "I know Hong Kong has many problems, like self-censorship," Meng said at a downtown coffee shop a few weeks ago here in the former British colony as he evaluated his political options in China. "Hong Kong also has a reputation for not caring about politics. But it is still a good platform." And so the publisher, who still wears a backpack...
...Goldwork, of course, is Colombia's real forte, and this is dramatically on display in the heart of Bogotá's downtown at the Museo del Oro, tel: (57-1) 343 2221. It reopened last fall following a 10-year renovation. Drenched in sunlight and sprawling over a quartet of gallery-filled floors, the Museo includes 6,500 gold and ceramic pieces - many more than 2,000 years old. (See more about Colombia...
...shattered before dawn on Thursday when authorities uncovered what they insist was an assassination plot against Morales. At 4:30 a.m., police surrounded the Hotel de las Americas in downtown Santa Cruz, the capital of Bolivia's anti-Morales east. They'd been tipped about armed occupants in two of the rooms; and when they went to check it out, say government officials, they were met with gunfire. They returned it and killed three of the five men in the rooms, wounding the other two. According to Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, authorities were then led to Santa Cruz...
...April 1980, a downtown in the economy caused thousands of dissatisfied Cubans to seek political asylum in foreign countries. Anyone who wanted to leave, Castro announced, could do so through its northwestern port, Mariel Harbor. Over the next six months 125,000 Cubans clambered onto boats and made their way to the U.S. in a mass flotilla. Castro also released criminals and mental-hospital patients, of whom as many as 22,000 landed on the shores of Florida; Cuba refused to take them back...