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...sports a huge glass dome by British architect Norman Foster that sits over the plenary hall - from the viewing deck inside you can look down and see parliamentarians at work. Just behind the Reichstag, look carefully for the cobblestone line marking where the Wall once stood. Passing the Brandenburg Gate, you travel on Unter den Linden boulevard with its elegant 18th century buildings, which contrast sharply with the stark East bloc architecture of Alexanderplatz, the final stop. Cost: single ticket $2.55, full-day ticket $7.00. Journey time: about 30 min. Lisbon: Pick up the No. 28 tram at Largo...
...Gate, the psychedelic opening track (and the odd choice for the album's first single), sets up the collection, describing a traveler's arrival at a strange and soulless city after a long voyage. From there, Roberts says, songs zoom in and out from general attributes of the imaginary (but representative) city to specific incidents that take place there. "I think the whole idea of this record is travel," he says...
Students who ventured up the Quincy dining hall stairs around 7 p.m. on Sunday were welcomed back from spring break not by the smiling face of the card-checker and the enticing aroma of vegetable lasagna, but by the cold, hard bars of a closed metal gate. In a scene that was echoed at Eliot House, which was one of the few upperclass dining halls open the night before College classes resumed, chaos reigned in the servery and in the seating area as students scrambled to get their hands on food and then chairs before either ran out. Apparently...
...people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. "We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous," says He Shaoyang, then head of the city's planning commission. "It wasn...
...scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), looks out on a breathtaking view of San Francisco--the gilded dome of City Hall, the diagonal stripe of Market Street, the little neighborhoods marching up and down steep hillsides. Slowly she pivots, taking in the sailboats on the bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, the shimmering surface of the Pacific Ocean. Just out there--she points--a couple of miles offshore, lies the place where, early in the morning of April 18, 1906, the earth's crust cracked like an eggshell, unleashing what--even in the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina--stands...