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...will also leave in question the future of a 325,000-sq.-ft. office tower in downtown New Orleans, where many former office buildings have been converted to hotels and condominiums. But condos and hotels don't foster the sort of long-term, thriving business climate that encourages companies to put down roots. "Every time we lose a corporate headquarters, it makes it harder for us to get a new corporate headquarters," says Al Petrie, a New Orleans investor and media relations consultant who has extensive ties with the energy industry. Katrina's chaotic aftermath and slow recovery are "forcing...
...chorus of pleading critics--whether on behalf of Iranian films, an innovative TV show or the novels of David Foster Wallace--usually has the exact opposite effect of its intent. Instead of inspiring people to try something new, it leaves them feeling oppressed by the rapture of specialists...
...Governor Bill Ritter signed a bill making Colorado the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian partners to adopt children as couples instead of restricting parental rights to one partner. Now Seeley can legally adopt Allen's biological daughter Amelia, 2, and Allen can adopt Seeley's adopted son Foster, 1, and this ability to become more like other families delights the couple. "Being able to give our children that kind of legal, two-parent security," says Seeley, 36, a medevac nurse, "means more than being able to marry...
...California, Los Angeles, and Washington's Urban Institute. Almost 2% of the nation's 3 million same-sex households include adopted children--and that growing pool, the UCLA study estimates, currently saves U.S. taxpayers as much as $130 million a year in costs for, say, keeping children in foster or institutional care and recruiting adoptive parents for them...
...given the style a bad name. The history of architecture since then has been largely an effort to find a way out of that aesthetic dead end. Still, the enduring virtues of Modernism--clean lines and lucid structure--have been carried into the present by architects like Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Meanwhile the furniture and graphics of the era are as hot as they've ever been. And in buildings by such marquee names as Richard Meier and Jean Nouvel, austere glass and steel have even regained cachet for homes, at least in the world of high-end condo...