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CITY HALL Completed in 2002, the seat of London government is one of the more striking structures along the Thames. Designed by Foster and Partners, it resembles a giant steel-and-glass egg tilting in the wind. Inside, the spiral staircase at its core seems to float in midair, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open House: Exploring Inner Spaces | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

Still, he admits his situation is dire. "It's a tough fight. I don't enjoy being a leader of a country in a time of war." But rather than striking back on the battlefield, he says, the only way to convince Russia to leave is to "hit them where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Georgia's President Keeps Firing | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

It's hard to describe just how adored this shuttlecock master is in China, where badminton is followed with the kind of passion Americans reserve for basketball or baseball. Sporting a coxcomb of spiky hair and stylish sideburns, Lin goes by the nickname Super Dan - pronounced "dahn," not like the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Badminton Star Takes Gold | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

As 2000 artists from 22 countries filled Pago Pago's Veterans Memorial Stadium for the July 21 opening, cultural diversity was everywhere on show - from the striking syncopation of Tahitian hula to folksy bamboo-flute-playing Solomon Islanders to the fierce bow-and-arrow dancers of Torres Strait. The stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanic Arc | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

Creative connectivity was the festival's theme. Some artists, like Samoan-New Zealander Graham Fletcher, found the similarities between cultures more striking than their differences. Sharing accommodation with Maori and Tongan artists in the New Zealand compound, "We spent all night talking, basically," Fletcher recalls. "It's amazing the connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanic Arc | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

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