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...America. From the moment the Trade Center fell, people everywhere, but especially New Yorkers, have had fierce opinions about what should rise in its place. In a city with more than its share of bristling constituencies, a whole collection of "stakeholders" now claim the place. One is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that built the Trade Center and still owns the site. The towers, with their 10 million sq. ft. of office space, were a crucial source of P.A. rental income that it badly needs to get flowing again. Then there are the well...
Whitehead has brought on as his director of planning Alexander Garvin, a highly regarded urban thinker. But the L.M.D.C. also operates in a not-always-comfortable partnership with the Port Authority. Last month, when the L.M.D.C. invited urban design and architecture firms to submit proposals for developing the site, the P.A. leadership, angry that it had not been consulted, started throwing its weight around. Whitehead's group had to withdraw the requests. Soon after, new ones went out over the names of both bodies, but they bore the plain stamp of the barreling Port Authority. Whereas the L.M.D.C. had called...
...riddled with abandoned churches and unexplored caves and known throughout the Philippines for its black magic and mangkukulam, or traditional healers. The real hair-raiser is a statue of the Virgin Mary in the village of Maria, a winding 15-km drive through the mountains from the main port of Larena. In her right hand she clutches a skull and in her left an inverted crucifix. Leave before dark: word is she's a nightwalker...
Bohol Island is a one-and-a-half hour ferry ride southeast of Cebu city, and Nuts Huts, a three-hour drive inland from the port, is truly in the middle of nowhere. That's perfect for travelers who have overdosed on Spanish churches, major tourist attractions and diving in the Mindanao Sea. Visitors with more energy to expend can always jump on a mountain bike, go caving or see the thundering Tontonan Falls. As for us, we rarely got vertical in the four days we were there. E-mail walterken@hotmail.com for reservations...
...officer moved along a large group that had tipped over a Port-A-Potty...