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...approval were deflating the city's boom. A smiling Hu allowed photographers to record him strolling past marshland that Shanghai officials hope to turn into an industrial zone and touring high-profile factories. Shortly after Hu returned to Beijing, the central government approved construction of a long-awaited tunnel-and-bridge project to Chongming Island, and city officials say the second phase of a deepwater port has not been blocked by central planners. The message seemed to be that Shanghai could continue steaming ahead. "Hu set out to defang Jiang's tiger" in Shanghai, says the Western diplomat...
...site. Both fear the loss of their political claim to the sacred place. At the center of the current controversy is Isam Awwad, chief Palestinian architect for the Haram al-Sharif and the man in charge of the reconstruction within the Mount. He has long feared Israel would tunnel into the massive, unused chambers beneath the surface of the Mount. "I am an architect, but also I am a Palestinian who is part of this conflict," Awwad told Time. "So I made an initiative" to convert those chambers into mosques. In 1996, Awwad began renovating an underground hall called Solomon...
...while performing a stunt; in Charlotte, North Carolina. A favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash-and-burn" lifestyle, he was most famous for a chopper he built and dubbed "Grease Monkey." died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive who oversaw construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England; in Bosham, England. His leadership helped the project survive a series of political and financial crises before the 50-km tunnel finally opened in 1994. DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered an elegant interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Arkansas...
...mind that a longer board offers better balance, and don't forget to stretch your muscles and hydrate well before hitting the swells. After Day One, you might not be ready for the "green room," as U.S. surfing legend Gerry Lopez termed the experience of skimming through a tunnel of water, but you'll be able to use words like "Stoked!" and "Dude!" with much more conviction. Check out our pick of Asia's finest learn-to-surf beaches...
...overwrought Norman May commentary. Right up to early adulthood, each Games fired imaginings absurdly beyond my reach. So I settled for sports writing, which I did exclusively for 11 years. It was during that time, interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches. One, voice thick with contempt, told me I was "pathetic" for investigating steroid use by athletes under his care, that all steroids do is "make you more...