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Rock Outreach. If you can't get to the original Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the museum has opened a 25,000-sq.-ft. branch in downtown New York, focusing on that city's contribution to the music world. Admission is a steep $22, but the money buys you a look at David Byrne's Stop Making Sense suit, letters between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when they were teenagers, and a urinal from CBGBs, the legendary Lower East Side punk-rock club, which closed in 2006. 76 Mercer Street, New York City...
...level. Rhodes is well aware of the miserable statistics, and when he first saw his new chancellor from afar, he thought she looked petite, foreign and underqualified. "I was like, She doesn't look ready for urban kids." But after they exchanged e-mails, he agreed to meet her downtown. He realized almost at once that he had underestimated her. "She actually sat with me," he says, "and talked eye to eye, like I was one of her co-workers." They decided to meet again, this time at Anacostia High. Rhodes began to talk about Rhee to his classmates...
...local government tentatively plans to turn the remains of the city into a memorial park and build a new downtown 12 miles (20 km) to the south. Zhang now heads the Beichuan Department of Commerce, working to attract new businesses and industrial development. He hopes to bring in building-material companies that will develop earthquake-resistant products. Once Beichuan is rebuilt, a process that is estimated to take three years, Zhang hopes that the firms can then produce materials for seismic hazard zones elsewhere in China and abroad. The strain on Zhang and other local bureaucrats is severe. A quarter...
...purely urban contexts. During that period, a number of smart people came up with a number of intelligent plans for scouring out city cores based on the best information available about the housing, business, and social needs of cities, as in Ed Logue’s plans for downtown New Haven. Despite the best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop the dramatic decay of cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Why? Largely because of cheap land and interstate highway access to new suburban communities...
...selection suggests that Obama agrees. But Daschle also knows from experience that health care is one area in which Obama's mantra of change has always been a hard sell. Shortly after the 2006 election, Daschle met with Obama at Tosca, Daschle's favorite Italian restaurant in downtown D.C., and urged him to consider running for President. "My message to Barack was, 'Don't always think you will have another shot.' " In his own pursuit of health-care reform, however, another shot is exactly what Daschle has been given...