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...drawn visitors for hundreds of years. There is nothing flimsy about the building, as it's composed of 4,750 tons of compressed snow and ice. Its domed ceilings are 16 ft. at their peak; its walls are 7-ft. thick. In the hotel, an ice chandelier shimmers over world-class ice sculptures of various subjects, including animals, an igloo and Inuit as they go about their life. Paintings of wintry Quebec scenes are encased in ice in one of two separate art galleries. There's even a little movie theater, where pelts cover the stadium-style seats...
...with big ambitions. Coldplay's U.S. sales figures are nothing to write home about so far, and chances are, the band members are playing venues considerably smaller than the ones they're used to. But the experience may be just what Coldplay needs to develop from British darlings to world-class rockers. The band's charm is undeniable; its hooks are hard to shake. Who says first records by bands smack out of college have to be lyrically complex or push the envelope musically? In this teen-pop age, a collection of perfectly good rock songs that actually sells...
...behind The Matrix, for which he devised the vertiginous virtual hand combat and flying feats that made the movie a gut as well as a head experience. He has won further acclaim for Crouching Tiger, and he was the one person who could say no to the world-class director making his first action film, which happened on more than one occasion. No wonder: the script would read, "They fight," leaving the overall conception to Lee and the hard work of realizing it to Yuen. "When I'm working with good directors," Yuen says, "they'll often come up with...
North Korea may actually possess world-class expertise. It takes a lot of engineers, technicians and software whizzes to develop nuclear weapons and missile technology. That talent is being put to commercial use in an attempt to spin off a high-tech industry in a decidedly low-voltage nation. "The rocket fired over Japan in 1998 required software capability," says Kim Jin Mook, an Internet entrepreneur in Seoul with North Korean business contacts. "That's proof of their capability...
...country boasts world-class oil and gas reserves, on a par with those of the largest OPEC producers. The problem is getting the oil out of the ground and to market. Years of Soviet mismanagement and underinvestment have taken their toll. Russia's oil fields are in dire need of rehabilitation; Sakhalin's north and much of Siberia are littered with rusting derricks ringed by porous labyrinths of old pipelines. Local environmentalists, pointing to the recent spill near the Galapagos Islands, worry about the potential damage to Sakhalin's rich ecosystem caused by toxic drilling waste...