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...stretching from Esperance on the Southern Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into his Kalgoorlie posting, the goldfields bishop's vision is changing. "I find the desert quite charming," he says. "And the more you educate your eye, the more you see. It requires a new way of seeing landscape...
...night, and the Hard Rock has blackjack in the pool. The newest Cirque du Soleil show at New York-New York Hotel & Casino, called Zumanity, is a virtually naked gymnastics event in which men make out and the rest of the cast simulates acrobatic sex. "I had the vision of some couple seeing one of the acts and suing us after trying to replicate it and hurting his back," says Michael Bolingbroke, senior vice president of Cirque du Soleil. Treasure Island, trying to shed its wholesome image, now calls itself TI and has replaced its kid-friendly outdoor pirate show...
...where the taste for tall buildings never really abated, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the early '90s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a roster of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservative American market...
...shareholder means the family will continue to have an influence in the business even after his death. That's controversial. Some managers at the company have criticized the role played by his wife Liz, 63, in the recent ousters of two top executives. But Mohn is committed to his vision of improving society and he wanted the Bertelsmann Foundation--unlike many U.S. foundations that limit their activities to providing grants--to have a hands-on role. The foundation, set up in 1977, funds only projects that it runs; its stated ambition is to influence the future shape of Germany...
...where the taste for tall buildings never really abated, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the early '90s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a roster of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservative American market. Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art's temporary outpost in Queens, New York City. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some more than 4 m high), "Tall Buildings...