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Harte’s closest brush with a world-class runner came while waiting for a portable toilet with three-time Boston Marathon winner Moses Tanui, a Keynan...
...face of the shopping landscape. Some of the world's greatest architects are now designing stores. Rem Koolhaas, who won architecture's Nobel Prize equivalent last year, the Pritzker, is conceptualizing the New York Prada store, which sits beneath the Soho Guggenheim Museum. Christian de Portzamparc, who won the Pritzker in 1994, designed the LVMH tower on New York's 57th Street. So when Gucci took over Yves Saint Laurent, creative director Tom Ford knew that the first task was to bring the brand's stores up to world-class par. Ford, who designed the Gucci stores with the help...
...America's higher-education system, considered the most diversified on earth, is valued precisely because of its full menu of choices--from small Bible colleges to world-class universities. If the tuition wars spread further, that diversity will suffer. "In the short term," observes Dickinson's Massa, the merit-scholarship bidding "benefits colleges because we get our numbers. But if as a result we're not able to build new buildings or pay professors, it will cost us our future...
...keep development in Russia. To start, they need $3 million in first-round funding. If they can make the right VC connections, and bring in the right management - and if more Russian scientists follow that example - then the country will have a shot at developing not only world-class technology but world-class technology companies...
Aside from the club scene and first-rate restaurants like Laekjarbrekka, with its renowned game menu featuring wild reindeer, puffin and gannet, Reykjavik (pop. 170,000) does not exactly offer world-class attractions. Its main shopping street has more Chinese restaurants than chic boutiques, and everything is expensive (a beer in a club costs about $7). "We are not a country that offers high-class tourism," admits Oddny Oladottir of the Iceland Tourist Board. "But for people interested in nature and geology, you can see a lot of things in a small area...