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There are still limits. The Louvre takes its public-service and scientific missions very seriously. A section of the basement hums with activity from workshops that keep alive esoteric skills such as the art of working with gold leaf, and curators say the increased number of exhibitions of Louvre works abroad keeps them on their toes, since they need to produce catalogues and other research for them. The lending policy isn't limitless, either: earlier this year the Louvre pulled out of a show that a private promoter was mounting in Verona, Italy. The Louvre would have received $6.4 million...
...interview in his congressional office, Paul told me there's a reason he had so much success, particularly with younger voters. "They're idealistic. They like consistency. They like principle," he said. For a sense of his hard-line heart, consider the fact that his signal issue was the gold standard--returning to the peg the dollar used before 1971 as a bulwark against inflation and federal mismanagement. That would mean scrapping the Federal Reserve, for starters. While Barr talks about shrinking the size of government, Paul wants to tear the entire global financial system limb from limb...
Second Set: From across the court, I can see into the TV commentator's booth. John McEnroe - whose five-set epic against Bjorn Borg in 1980 was, until this match, considered the gold standard in Wimbledon final history - is gesticulating wildly, re-enacting Nadal's backhand with such eagerness you worry he might fall from his booth onto his cherished court below...
...night before France took on the E.U. presidency, the Eiffel Tower was lit up in a sparkling blue with gold stars, representing the E.U. colors. But earlier in the day, French lorry drivers blocked roads around Paris in protest at rising fuel prices. Such real-life intrusions are more likely to define Sarkozy's six months at the E.U.'s tiller than a fancy light show...
...with the Asia Society, Zhao traveled to Guiyu - which processes up to 1 million tons of electronic garbage a year - to film a documentary on the impact of e-waste. "I saw people putting leftover parts on coal fired stoves, to melt down the waste to get to the gold," he says. "It'd produce a reddish smoke that was so strong I couldn't stand there for more than a couple minutes before my eyes would just burn." (Hear Zhao talk about the e-waste on this week's Greencast.) Urban China is so polluted that few Chinese escape...