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...After the initial climatic shock - it helps to remove as much clothing as you decently can - you find yourself surrounded by giant trees with twisted roots, rubber plants sprouting bell-shaped flowers, raffia palms, orchids and periwinkles. As you pass a large tortoise lurking under a fern and shriek at a fruit bat flying over your head, you may wonder whether you are still in Zurich. And that's how the zoo's director, Alex Rübel, intended it. Opened in June 2003, after a decade of planning and construction, the j33.5 million project boasts such high-tech features...
Colleagues remember Kelleher as a “giant in the field” who informed a generation of other Irish scholars...
...works on display are pieces designed for the 1878 Universal Exhibition, including an ornate enameled Turkish coffee set. There's a huge showcase full of vases, dishes and stemware commissioned by personages ranging from Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan to Jazz Age entertainer Josephine Baker. In one room, a giant candelabra ordered by Czar Nicholas II stands next to chairs designed for Indian maharajas. Another features a surreal canopy (pictured) painted by French artist Gérard Garouste, inspired by the symbols of alchemy: air, water, earth and fire. Throughout the museum, Starck contrasts the sumptuous and the simple...
...revenues are projected to grow to $25 billion by 2008. But if India fails to improve its infrastructure soon, competitors like China could start to steal business from its technology and outsourcing companies. "We still have five years' lead," says Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys, a Bangalore-based software giant. "If in five years we've done nothing, there will be an issue." Perhaps the country's biggest hope is the fighting spirit of its new generation of entrepreneurs, who are determined to succeed regardless of the obstacles. "When I'm making my projections for growth or preparing forecasts...
DIED. ALAN BATES, 69, bluff, beguiling English actor; in London. A modest giant bestriding nearly a half-century of excellence, the Derbyshire lad co-starred at age 22 in the original London stage production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing but the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films, he often chaperoned showier...