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...digital renderings of Jean Nouvel's Hotel Broadway in New York, and of Dubai's Burj al-Arab, the world's tallest hotel. - L.G Treasure Trove An ethereal glow emanates from a jeweled menagerie of flowers and animals ensconced inside long cabinets in a darkened room. Visitors wield flashlights handed out at the entrance to "The Jewels of JAR," a homage to the innovative designer Joel Arthur Rosenthal at London's Somerset House. The shadowed display is modeled on his exclusive shop near Place Vendôme, Paris. Only around 70 unique pieces are hand made every year, and this...
...probability of catching the offender is high." Since 1998, the IAEA has been analyzing satellite photos for signs that Saddam is pursuing nukes. Last month those photos produced images of new buildings going up at a former Iraqi weapons plant that the iaea wants to explore. These experts will wield new high-tech tools - a gamma-spectroscopy monitor known as the Ranger, which is used to detect radiation, and a bright yellow device, known as Alex, that can pick out metals used for nuclear purposes...
...embracing them. A key reason may have come last February. The airlines and the TSA had claimed reinforced doors would keep out hijackers. Then an apparently disturbed man took only minutes to burst through the entry to the cockpit of a United Air Lines plane. The pilot had to wield an emergency-crash ax to stop...
...nine-year-old, music practice can be a drag, meaning parents typically have to wield the baton, if not the whip. Anoushka Shankar was no exception when it came to shirking homework on the special miniature sitar her folks had made for her when she was that age. "They would sit me down periodically and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with...
WASHINGTON—I came to Washington to be a press intern and learn life’s lessons, to stride or at least scamper meekly through the Corridors of Power, to see and understand how things get done in America, and, though I would certainly wield no power, to at least get close enough to be warmed by its glow. Well…as it turns out I spent much more time operating the Copy Machines of Power than striding through the corridors thereof, but I was definitely warm. I cannot get over how hot this place is. It?...