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...Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which was inspired by a Chinese legend. Soon the workers in white hard hats, who are still screwing the final bolts in place, will hang fish-shaped Chinese lanterns. Dim sum is on the menu, as is seafood fried rice. "It's turn-of-the-century America, with a Disney overlay, with a Chinese overlay," says Tom Morris, one of the park's chief "imagineers"--Disney lingo for creative designers. "You can go to different...
Tiles, some painted a garish pink, loosely hang on the outside of the building. The floors are worn, the building’s structural integrity generally sound but not perfect...
...compound is lifeless, with not even a seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance and upkeep are estimated at about $100 million a year...
...whose every thought was purity," exclaimed Benjamin Butler, a general in the war, to a crowd in New York City, "whose every desire a yearning for forgiveness and peace, what shall be done to them in high places who guided the assassin's knife?" The crowd began to chant, "Hang them! Hang them!" The assassination, Northern leaders saw, had a great political value. "His death," noted a caucus of Republican Congressmen, "is a godsend to our cause...
...series of black-and-white landscapes, portraits and buildings taken while touring, was published last week. Rogers did not set out to do a book, but when friends suggested it, he liked the idea. "There's no other way to keep photos," he says. "I wasn't going to hang them on my wall." Besides, he's not giving it away. The book goes for $24.95. --By Sara C. Medina