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...those dark domains. The persuasive immediacy of the prose is such that it becomes all too easy to see Venice through Atman's self-consciously hip sunglasses. Pleasure dissipated from my first vaporetto ride the moment I opened the book. "You came to Venice," muses Atman, "you saw a ton of art, you went to parties, you drank up a storm, you talked bollocks for hours on end and went back to London with a cumulative hangover, liver damage, a notebook almost devoid of notes and the first tingle of a cold sore." (See pictures of London...
Recently we've become used to the idea of modern-day piracy, as we hear more and more stories of gangs hijacking ships for ransom in the lawless waters of East Africa. But the mysterious disappearance of a 4,000-ton cargo ship off the coast of England two weeks ago suggests the most unlikely of scenarios: buccaneering has returned to Europe...
From now through July 2010, one of Paris' hottest tables will be the sole 12-seater located inside a 24-ton glass-and-steel structure that has been constructed on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo contemporary-arts center, in the 16th arrondissement. The temporary restaurant has been conceived as a UFO-like installation by artist Laurent Grasso, who is famous for his unsettling science-, space- and paranormal-inspired works designed to reinstill mystery in a world that has been stripped of its uncertainties by science - or so Grasso believes. For a dozen lucky diners at a time, however...
...better that stuff will get more expensive? Won't the demise of Wal-Mart kick out of the middle class those who are now clinging to its bottom rung? Only if you define middle class as being able to buy a ton of peripheral stuff for next to nothing. What I think will happen is we'll see the ancillary kinds of junk - like throwaway furniture and gobs of plastic kitchen gadgets - fade out of our lives. The middle class will still have access to what truly makes life good: a comfortable home (but not a huge home), good education...
...TIME has learned that on the Chinese side, they were effectively being run out of the office of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, though representatives of China's Iron and Steel Association were the front men at the negotiating sessions. China was demanding price cuts of up to 44% per ton of iron ore this year - about 10% more than the cuts Japanese and Korean steel producers received. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...