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...desires, what is it that compels men and women to throw, hit and kick balls, or chase one another for 100 meters or 26 miles? And what compels us to watch them at play and pay them exorbitantly for that privilege? It is better explained from inside a stadium filled with 80,000 singing, screaming fans, strangers bonding to celebrate the physical prowess of mortals, sharing victory that, although senseless in the abstract, provokes a kind of unfettered joy that even art and music can't match. It's millions of French citizens pouring into the streets to celebrate...
Paul Tagliabue was right. When the National Football League commissioner saw a model of the Cincinnati Bengals' new home--which abandoned the typical concrete bowl for a gleaming pair of crescent-shaped stands, he gushed, "It's going to take the NFL stadium to a new level." As proof, the project garnered national design awards, and its creators, Dan Meis and Ron Turner, have been hired to build or renovate a dozen high-profile sports arenas as well as brainstorm over the future of the mother ship, Madison Square Garden...
Meis and Turner, part of the architectural firm NBBJ Sports and Entertainment, serve up technical prowess--Meis' multiuse miracle in Japan transforms a 5,000-seat theater into a 20,000-seat arena or a 30,000-seat stadium at the touch of a few buttons--as well as simple strokes of genius, like turning hard-to-fill corner seats at the Philadelphia Eagles' upcoming stadium into courtyards where fans can socialize--and shell out cash...
...Africans, the Chinese are benefactors who send doctors and engineers and build roads, stadiums and hospitals. As I barrel down the smoothest stretch of tarmac (which was built by a Chinese firm) connecting the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Mombasa, village children greet me, with my half-Asian features, by cheering: "China road, China road." In Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where Zheng He's ships once landed, the city's biggest sports facility is called the Chinese stadium. "It is very simple," says Zhu Xiaochuan, China's economic and commercial counselor in Nairobi, as he sips imported jasmine tea. "Africa needs...
...Officers sent four suspicious individuals on their way near the Stadium...