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...SFMOMA exhibition, which travels later to New York City and Dallas, is Eliasson's first American museum show. It arrives at a time when he's the object of intense curiosity in U.S. art circles, largely because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month...
...being relocated and it's now forbidden to graze on badly hit areas. The slow process of regrowth has started in limited areas, and the sand storms hitting Beijing have been less severe in the last few years. Though some scientists chalk uo the latter to fluctuations in weather, others say it's a sign that the grasslands are starting to return to health. "Maybe some places are getting better, but some places are getting worse," says Jiang Gaoming, a plant ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences...
Britons have a reputation for drinking and fighting and talking about the weather. The annual conferences of Britain's three largest political parties traditionally provide ample opportunity to indulge in all three pursuits. They take place in sequential weeks of September and October, mostly in out-of-season resorts where the cheap hotels are accustomed to tipsy guests, and amusement arcades are open from morning to night...
...some members of the governing Labour Party, which convened on Sept. 23-27 in Bournemouth, a town on England's southwest coast, are disappointed. Drink was taken in copious quantities, and the weather put on quite a show: there was sunshine, dramatic cloudbursts and even a rainbow over the convention center as Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his speech. Yet something was missing: the chance to blow off steam by trading insults or even blows with colleagues. An unfamiliar spirit of universal amity took the edge off debates that in earlier years might have degenerated into cathartic screaming matches. Sheltering...
...Weather-torn from traveling the nation the past two weeks to battle North Carolina, Duke, Portland, and Washington, the Bulldogs (3-7) will try to hold their own against Harvard. But according to Mann, the revamped and poised Crimson will be hard to defeat...