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...complex will use radiant underfloor heating and cooling, rather than the traditional model in which air is blown into rooms...
...long and passionately as an idea before descending to hard history. When Elie Wiesel's mind drifts to the Holy Land, his expressive face grows radiant. ''We live in biblical times,'' says Wiesel. ''Think of all that has been accomplished in 40 years.'' A national home for every Jew in the world, an ingathering from more than 100 countries -- although, of course, 9.3 million of the world's Jews remain in the Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy...
...camera panning up a lamb-dotted, astro-turfed hill that settles on Sister Stefani, dressed in nun garb and yodeling the opening lines from Julie Andrews’ famous marionette tune. The second act puts “My Favorite Things” to shame with a noticeably radiant bedtime Gwen instructing eager, Aryanized Asian kids on the finer points of getting wound up. And the performance finishes with a troupe of raucous, Austrian incarnations of the Harajuku girls popping and locking. After having “awesome visuals” forced down my throat by the last pop princess?...
...last July to fire the paper's longtime editor Serge July - one of Sartre's few remaining comrades - alienated older fans. Desperate, the editors last month launched a "readers' society," asking for donations as though the newspaper was a charity. One reader responded on the website: "Libé's radiant future is behind you," he wrote. "Adieu!" Several journalists suggest that some blame lies within the newsroom itself, which they say is filled with aging bobos - bourgeois-bohemians - who are increasingly disconnected from a multiethnic France and the country's hard-charging, careerist youth. "We are all the same kinds...
...Gotham feel—it is divided into two five-story wings which fan from a taller, and, might I add, completely useless center. Nowadays, everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue, and the other an equally radiant white. The two bodies of paint meet in a momentous curve that swoops from the South wing’s top floor to the base of the North wing. In a capital city full of garish wonders, Sayansi must surely occupy a top spot. Perhaps, though, the decoration was merely...