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Basel is in some ways the Houston of Switzerland: one industry overshadows all the others, and the zoning is haphazard. In Basel it isn't unusual to see a modern glass-and-steel monstrosity amid a row of elegant 19th century neoclassical buildings. The Rhine plies a serpentine course through the city, and Novartis' headquarters are at the river's edge, at a point where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. Across the Rhine from Novartis and a little to the east, marked by a tall white smokestack, is rival Roche. The pharmaceutical execs in Basel know one another, and they...
...comparing how different artists in different times and places have inventively [rendered] the same subjects: the human figure, landscapes, birds and animals, fish and flowers.” There are “drawings” incised in metal, stone and clay; “drawings” on glass; “drawings” on textiles; “drawings” on ceramics; even a “drawing” on a limestone flake. There are also more conventionally-defined “drawings” on paper; a twentieth-century nude by Elie Nadelman shares...
...keep the hopelessness and depression factor of most news stories at bay? -Carol Ruhl, Pittsburgh, Pa. I guess I'm always the person to see the glass as half full. There's always good news in every news report. If you're going to live in a society, you need to know the underside as well as the bright spot so you can be prepared for dealing with them...
...beautiful shopping mall in the world. The 19th century Galleria was originally built to connect Piazza della Scala, home to La Scala opera house, and Piazza Duomo, with its magnificent Gothic cathedral. Under a vaulted glass roof and handpainted frescoes, the mall now has cafés, restaurants, boutiques - and only one hotel...
...Dandy, the best-looking guy on their 'otoko' menu of male hosts. In less than an hour, there have been three "champagne calls" (when a customer buys a bottle of champagne, hosts gather around the table and cheer in the club's signature performance) and one 200-glass champagne tower to celebrated the birthday of a host. Such hedonism might not be all that surprising at a successful club in what remains a fabulously wealthy city, except for one thing - it's 8 a.m. on a rainy weekday...