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...Guernica” at the Reina Sofia, my piecemeal experience with Spanish art was disappointing. To exclude modern art, particularly Picasso, from such a prominent, iconic museum is to exclude a pivotal moment in Spanish history. As a history aficionado and modern art connoisseur, I resented the extra walk down Paseo del Prado to find my favorite aspects of Spanish art—cubism, Picasso, and “Guernica”—in a young, growing museum instead of in Spain’s great established museum like I had expected. Then again...
Tran doesn’t come across as pushy or attention-seeking. In retrospect, Tran thinks what distinguished the contestants who moved farther was a little extra spark that they put on when the time was ripe...
...acre site not far from ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current mayor, says this was one of the critical turning points in Hiroshima's recovery. The assistance created jobs and provided the city with an emotional core, something meaningful to build on ground zero...
...yuan's?China's currency had come to embody the industrialized world's fears of a hypercompetitive mainland staging a hostile takeover of global manufacturing. Led by the U.S., critics accused China of clinging to the dollar peg in order to keep the yuan artificially weak, making its exports extra cheap and fostering a worrisome trade gap with the U.S. that ballooned to a record $162 billion in 2004. Unless Beijing changed its currency policy, a trade war loomed. Still, Beijing wouldn't budge, leaving businessmen and investors across the globe guessing as to when this uneasy status quo might...
...Other Ways to Help ? Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys ? Improve health conditions in remote regions with Medicines Global by packing extra first-aid kits ? To offset the CO2 emissions released during your travels, go to treesftf.org and purchase CO2-consuming trees ($1 will offset a round-trip domestic flight, $3 an international...