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...disabled when heavy snow and ice in Hunan province knocked out power lines, leaving at least 136 trains idled, according to Xinhua, China's official news agency. In neighboring Hubei province, some 100,000 people were without drinking water for several days. In rural Guizhou province, an electrical tower collapsed under the weight of the snow, cutting off power for 41 cities and counties. The supply of coal to dozens of regional power plants was disrupted, resulting in electricity outages throughout the country...
...Duplo is still going strong too). In 1968, the company opened its first Legoland theme parks, near its Billund birthplace. Parks in Windsor, England, Carlsbad, California and Günzburg, Germany followed, each using around 50 million bricks to create replicas of monuments and landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, and the Sydney Opera House. Each park receives around 1.4 million visitors per year...
...Bellagio hotel had never hosted a caucus before, but they ran the swankest voting site ever in which tiaras were not handed out. The caucus was held in the marble-floored, crystal-wall-sconced Tower ballroom a few yards from the casino. And yet the hotel was still unsatisfied. "For us, that room has nothing in it," said Alan Feldman, Bellagio's senior vice president of public affairs. "Even the water is in pitchers. We would never do that. It would be bottles of Fiji in little cooled metal holders. Next year, we want to sit down with the party...
...Surely this is what history at its best is all about - an ability to entertain and edify at the same time. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant, except in the ivory tower. Burrow does a noble service by dusting off the giants of the past, the most brilliant of them as fresh, exciting and immortal as Shakespeare or Tolstoy. But it is up to us, as readers, to keep their achievements alive...
It’s true that the storied anti-Americanism of ivory-tower intellectuals remains prevalent; though it is subtler than right wing talk-show hosts make it out to be. Polls reveal universities to be hotbeds of both concern and vehement criticism with regard to American society and politics: a full 63 percent of our research faculties say they seriously doubt the future of their country...