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...photographs tell a tale of what is being lost. Sakamaki wandered through old mud-brick quarters destined to be bulldozed and glimpsed the steel-and-glass materialist world that Chinese planners see rising above the rubble. Much of his work is suffused with a melancholy he allows to be dubbed "poetic." It is the picture, in many instances, of a people resigned to defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Sands in China's Stark Xinjiang Region | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Like those of its competitors in New York or London, the sleek glass and steel offices of media company Rotana are filled with preening attitude and fashion-conscious staffers: assistants teeter in shoes that might have absorbed much of their monthly paycheck; executives parade the halls in power suits and pencil skirts. But Rotana isn't in New York or London; it's in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, a country in which women normally adhere to a strict dress code in public - a black cloak called an abaya, a headscarf and a veil, the niqab, which covers everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rights, and Challenges, for Saudi Women | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...person outfit like Bossa Nova, or 100 firms like it, will never replace the jobs at the big steel plants that once defined Pittsburgh. Palmer and Skaff wanted best-in-class manufacturing; for robotic toys, that means China. But Skaff says Bossa Nova is by no means constrained by child's play. He sees a company that can grow with its customers. "As the children age, they will be familiar with our toys," he says. "We will introduce robots that accompany them in their lifestyles." In other words, personal robots, born in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serious Child's Play | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...just the pedigree for the part. In his youth, he was a talented-enough soccer player to be offered a trial by the London club Arsenal, and he proves on film that he hasn't lost his touch. He comes from Port Talbot, the same South Wales steel town that produced Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Sheen says he spends three months studying characters, "looking at every bit of footage I can find and every book about them that's been written" and ferreting out their weak spots. In Clough's case, he didn't have to look hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Sheen Scores in The Damned United | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...Georgian architecture in the early 1900s eschewed features of modern architecture such as steel and cement, favoring instead the stately red brick and sash windows that were more characteristic of an earlier time...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Preserving Some of Harvard’s Best Kept Secrets | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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