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...didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. "We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous," says He Shaoyang, then head of the city's planning commission. "It wasn't like a Chinese garden...
...York City chefs--fun, funny, a little crude. There was something brash about his willingness to serve a just-picked strawberry drizzled with sweet balsamic vinegar rather than do something more complex and chef-ish like extruding a berry-vinegar solution into a foam. Great California chefs like Jeremiah Tower (for whom Batali briefly worked) and Alice Waters launched the American culinary revolution in the 1970s by trumpeting fresh ingredients above all. Twenty years later, Batali performed a neat trick. He made the revolution feel young and hip again--he was just 32 when Pò opened--and his respect...
WALLAMOPPI Like the old kids' game Operation, Wallamoppi requires nimble fingers. The rules are simple: two players take turns trying to stack disks atop a tower without toppling it. The game box cleverly doubles as the timer. Before each turn, a marble is dropped into the box. When it reaches the bottom, your turn...
...Port Authority officials would like Silverstein to give up some portion of the project, in particular the Freedom Tower, while Silverstein would retain the choice sites for the three most lucrative towers, but the haggling has continued over, among other matters, how much of the infrastructure costs he would have to bear and how much rent he will have to pay. Silverstein is also reportedly holding out for a $100 million "developers...
...only push back the already delayed finish date for the WTC. At least some members of the Port Authority commission would prefer to buy the entire project back, though Silverstein would surely drive a very hard bargain. For now both sides are back at the table, and the Freedom Tower's completion date has been pushed back...