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...When he first arrived for spring training, Gazza stayed in Guangzhou at one of the most opulent hotels in town, where the lobby showcased live white tigers pacing in glass cages. Training camp, though, was an hour-and-a-half away from the glitz of Guangzhou and it introduced him to a different China. The hotel mattress felt like it was stuffed with goal posts, the toilet overflowed and the only wildlife in the hotel was tiny, brown and had six legs. "It's supposed to be a communist country, where everybody's equal-like" observes Gazza. "But I reckon...
...glory days has been jolted back into Gazza. He hugs each man twice and offers up snacks of spicy squid, dried beef and shrimp chips. Jimmy samples the squid, but Dad refuses the food and instead pulls out a half-finished bottle of Famous Grouse whiskey, plus a glass he says he "nicked" from the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. Even though Gazza and his father don't actually talk much?John is as taciturn as Paul is chatty?the son says they're only truly at ease when they're together. The whole family is so tight-knit that...
...works like a tiny solar cell, turning light into electricity. And the material not only produces energy cleanly, but the silicon used is itself a waste product of the microchip industry. The flexible solar cells come into production next year. "The new material is far more robust than normal glass-based solar cells," says Dan Davies, an engineer at Solar Century, a London-based renewable energy company, "and it could also lead to a new flexibility in building design or be incorporated into consumer electronics." The University of Waterloo in Canada is anxious to use Spheral solar cells...
Hovering over the joyous atmosphere, however, was the spectre of the Holocaust. Just like the ceremonial breaking of a glass at a Jewish wedding, the Holocaust was a constant reminder to the town’s inhabitants that “the world is sad and needs healing...
After a year and a half, it remains the ground of murder. And the elegant stilts of steel, the extended wings of gossamer glass with which Daniel Libeskind proposes to sculpt a new Babylon above Ground Zero do not alter this truth. It is not that Libeskind is not a fine sculptor; it is that sculpture is too fine for the site...