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Hong Kong residents are accustomed to seeing their city's famous skyline shrouded by smog. Now the haze could be casting a pall on the city's business climate as well. Last week, investment bank Merrill Lynch downgraded three of the city's biggest property companies, warning in a separate report that pollution could dampen demand for real estate and blunt the city's economic edge. "If we get to the point where it's so noxious you can't live here, people will start walking out the door," says Merrill Lynch strategist Spencer White...
...least two precision guided missiles, used by the Israeli Air Force to flatten houses throughout south Lebanon, pancaked a six-story apartment block down a narrow street in the heart of Tyre. A huge pall of yellow smoke and dust rose above the town, marking the spot where the bombs have fallen. All that was left of the building was a sprawling pile of rubble mixed with the pathetic detritus of people?s destroyed homes - broken tables, a lamp, half a sofa, torn books, clothing...
...Cannes, a Riviera resort town just down the road from Nice and Monaco, was to have its first festival in September 1939. Germany's invasion of Poland cast a pall over Europe, and the festival was postponed until 1946, the year after the end of World War II. It took a break in 1947 and resumed the following year, now in May, now an annual event. (The 1968 edition was aborted midterm, in response to the Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk...
...heard but is not overwhelming,” said Morrissey. Each month, there will be 12 video art pieces rotating on the displays, one of which will be commissioned by Lumen Eclipse and centered on life in Cambridge. The first commissioned piece is by an Icelandic artist, Pall Thayer, who used photographs of Cambridge to create his piece. According to Keohane, both artists from foreign places—like Iceland and Brazil—as well as locals artists submitted work. Another of the inaugural pieces for the display was created by Nell B. Breyer, a research affiliate at MIT?...
...place definitely has its own unique charm, and evokes a Chicago juke joint in its sparseness: brick walls hung with black-and-white photos, and head-scrapingly low ceilings. All that’s missing is the pall of cigarette smoke, and it’s not too sorely missed by most...