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...Science Center is a landmark building, and the addition will be compatible with the essence of the building, while not trying to fake that something has changed,” Cushman said...
WINDOWS OF HOPE Windows on the World, the World Trade Center's landmark restaurant, is no more. But its owners have helped create a relief fund to assist the families of those in the food-service industry who were lost in the attacks. Windows of Hope has organized a drive on Oct. 11, when restaurants from around the world plan to donate at least 10% of that evening's takings to the fund. To participate or learn more about the effort, go to www.windowsofhope.org...
...stunning, expansive view. Best to Avoid: Taxi drivers who don?t smile, refuse to issue receipts and negotiate fares upon entry. Insist that the meter runs on single tariff while in Athens. Best Come-back: Benaki Museum. If you have time for only one museum stop, this Neo-classical landmark is the place to go. Open again after a 12-year renovation, the museum has a priceless collection spanning Hellenism?s 5,000 years. 1 Koumbari Street. Tel: +30 1 36 71 000. Admission: $4.50. wrought-iron balconies, and you'll find craftsmen like Constantine Petropoulos, 88, repairing some...
...might try to cut it off or disrupt it. On an even grander scale, they might blow up a dam, causing widespread flooding damage downstream. Compounding the impact would be the loss of hydroelectric-power generation. With security beefed up at major dams across the country, however, especially at landmark behemoths such as the Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, it would take a very determined effort to carry out such an attack...
...York City. Stern, who spearheaded a 1960 effort that saved Carnegie Hall from demolition, is one of the most recorded classical musicians in history (see Eulogy). DIED. SAAD MOURTADA, 78, diplomat who became Egypt's first ambassador to Israel in 1980, a year after the two countries signed a landmark peace agreement; in Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut. DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member of the Dai Viet party, which opposed French and later communist rule in Vietnam; in Mountain View, California. After...