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...almost pathologically opposed to more. "The very idea of building in Paris is seen as wrong and condemnable," sighs Paris architect Bernard Reichen. After the Tour Montparnasse went up, mayor Jacques Chirac and his conservative successor Jean Tiberi figured they had rightly read the public will by keeping a strict limit on building heights. As Blet and other opponents of towers point out, the height restrictions haven't cut Paris off entirely from architectural innovation: consider Jean Nouvel's glass-walled Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) along the Seine and I.M. Pei's pyramid at the Louvre (1989). "Nothing...
...LAID TO REST. SUN ZHIGANG, migrant graphic designer whose beating death in March by fellow inmates and attendants in a vagrants detention center in Shenzhen led to the reform of China's strict residency laws; in his hometown of Huanggang, Hubei province, China. Although Sun had the requisite residency papers for Shenzhen, the 27-year-old wasn't carrying them when he was stopped by police for a random check. His death created an uproar in China, and in June, President Hu Jintao signed an executive order forbidding police from detaining migrants simply for lacking the proper identification...
...network's technical expert and de facto chief. Trained in Europe for Saddam's weapons program, he specialized in missile warheads and electronics as an Iraqi official. Recently, he says, he has developed methods to launch helicopter missiles from the ground. Following a strict chain of command, cell leaders report to Abu Ali, passing intelligence up the chain and carrying instructions back down. Under his guidance the insurgents weigh information on U.S. troop movements and select targets. When they are ready to strike, they quickly activate men and weaponry. The cells work in their own regions, but from time...
...that got away. Ben Affleck was the one that got J. Lo. But Coldplay rocker CHRIS MARTIN is the one that got GWYNETH PALTROW pregnant. The couple confirmed last week that Paltrow, 31, is expecting their first child next summer. The willowy actress, who adheres to a strict macrobiotic diet, had begun to draw attention for looking more curvaceous. Though mum on wedding plans, the couple have reportedly applied for a marriage license. Can a family sitcom be far behind...
...strict secrecy practiced by JI and its affiliates means that Nyupeno and many other teachers might have had no idea of the true identity of the travelers who took advantage of the school's hospitality. (A teacher at the school, whom police allege has links to JI, disappeared in November last year.) Indeed, one of JI's greatest strengths is that its cells function as independent, clandestine units with scant knowledge of the rest of the organization. After his arrest in April, one top JI militant, Mohamad Nasir bin Abas, explained to police, "There can be members...