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...Nearer to Beijing, the resorts are fancier, offering everything from Swiss-style chalets to trails in the shadow of the Great Wall. But few of the runs are long enough to take more than a minute to complete. Local topography is hilly rather than mountainous and poses little challenge to ardent ski demons. Many resorts also depend on artificial snow, which, in addition to providing less-than-ideal schussing conditions, requires thousands of tons of water in a region already suffering from drought. With Chinese skiers clamoring for tougher runs and posher digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting...
...city didn't flood after Hurricane Katrina, even after the levees broke, because it was on higher ground. Now, while homeowners in suburban New Orleans worry that neighborhoods will be bulldozed for parks and greenways, the moneymen are hoping to lure people back into the city to live nearer the waterfront...
...Developers, however, are clearly hoping hurricane-wary residents will take a look at neighborhoods nearer the city?s original roots-along the waterfront, where there was no flooding. Sean Cummings, executive director of the New Orleans Building Corporation, a public development agency, says the port deal alone would open up riverfront for as much as $1 billion worth of development such as hotels and shops, perhaps performance spaces or a planetarium. "This is a giant step in a city that understands what its core business is-food, music, the riverfront, culture, architecture," says Cummings. A riverfront park, long championed...
...artist's flat, hard-edged style and singular imagination owed nothing to anybody. His pictures could be ordinary or outrageous: he depicted the bourgeoisie wearing their Sunday best and he painted mysterious women naked in jungles. The odd and the commonplace co-existed inside his head: he never went nearer a tropical forest than Paris' Botanic Gardens, and for much of his life combined painting with the humdrum work of a tax collector. "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris," at Tate Modern until Feb. 5, is the first major exhibit of his work in London for nearly 80 years. It brings...
...itself out in their recent videos. For “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” the band took on war and lost innocence. With their most recent six-minute-plus epic, “Jesus of Suburbia,” they focus on a subject nearer and dearer to them: love and loss among the over-eyelinered. The video’s protagonist, who hubristically claims in subtitled dialogue to be “nailed to a couch, suffering for [his] sins,” is “St.” Jimmy...