Word: siting
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...Asians didn't really understand what we were doing," says Eu of the STPI's earliest years. Even so, Asian artists began to grow curious, drawn by the technology and on-site expertise that would be at their disposal. "It's like a candy store to most artists," says Hungerford. Painters the caliber of Filipino Ben Cabrera and India's Atul Dodiya took up residencies. Both the STPI's artistic reputation and financial underpinnings slowly strengthened...
...previous Administration, an $8 billion backlog of maintenance. This is a bipartisan issue. We're not just saving beautiful scenery. We're saving our historic and cultural life too. Central High School in Little Rock is a unit of the National Park Service; so is Oklahoma City, the site of the greatest act of domestic terrorism...
...whole project is just ripe for Capone-style corruption, know this: when you're standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, it's easy to imagine an idyllic Olympic experience. With Grant Park and the tip of the Willis (né Sears) Tower at your back, gaze out at the site of the planned rowing venue. Instead of the geese you hear honking, imagine coxswains barking at their boat mates. A comfortable breeze blows in your face on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon. "Look around," says Casie Piejko, an Olympic supporter and a 30-year city resident, during a break from...
...Copenhagen to award the 2016 Games. Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are the other contenders, and boosters say the Second City has a fighting chance. First, it offers a compact proposal: about 90% of the athletes would compete within a 15-minute drive of the proposed Olympic Village site, not far from Chicago's downtown. Many events would take place in city parks, and most new facilities - including the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington Park - would be temporary, a strategy intended to avert the Olympics' worst legacy, expensive venues that sit idle...
...media crowd, it's now possible to make a buck or two--or much more--on Twitter. A company called Izea, which made its name connecting bloggers with firms willing to compensate them for plugs on their blogs, has set up a similar service for the Twittersphere. At a site called Sponsored Tweets, Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want companies to pay them for tweeting an ad on their behalf and wait for the offers to come in. Jocelyn French, the mother of a 2-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl, has tweeted...