Word: nesting
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...track stars have their Bird's Nest; the cyclists their velodrome; and the swimmers their Water Cube. Now the protesters who are certain to appear at the Beijing Olympics have their corners, too. On Wednesday, the security director for the Beijing Olympics announced that three sites in city parks will be set aside for demonstrations during the Games...
...Midnight Sun Express, stopping at Denali in mid-journey. Travelers sip champagne and goggle at moose and caribou while reflecting that a really high- tech society would reinvent the railroad, as an art form if necessary. Tourists can stay outside the park at the comfortable Crow's Nest Cabins on Sugar Loaf Mountain, overlooking Horseshoe Lake ($65 a night), or at any of several campgrounds in the forested foothills of Denali. The Wonder Lake
This Olympic summer, Beijing is buzzing. All over the city, iconic buildings designed by some of the world's best-known architects are changing the skyline--here a stadium like a bird's nest, there a media-company headquarters built in such crazy elevations that you wonder how it will stand up. But for me, it is the casual prosperity so evident in Songzhuang that proves that this is a city going through a revolution. For I can remember precisely the situation faced by artists when I visited Beijing for the first time, in 1994. Then the art scene...
...attack a red wing. They're protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Intentionally harming a red wing exposes one to a $250,000 fine and two years' imprisonment on a felony conviction. Even the city's Animal and Care Control Agency can't move a red wing nest without a permit. Nevertheless, local and federal officials have advised citizens confronted head-on by a red wing to simply stare back into its eyes. Better yet, they advise, avoid known red wing territories altogether. But in a city that cherishes every rare minute of sunshine, it's unlikely many will...
...gets is a minute-long, foghorn-like blare that all but pushes the listener off the edge with her.It has taken them a decade, but Portishead have reinvented themselves so successfully that they barely identify with their past. For diehards, the new maturity may result in something like empty nest syndrome. What Portishead is now interested in is visceral, confrontational, alarming, and totally brilliant music.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at meehan@fas.harvard.edu...