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...sense of chronological urgency already makes Angels & Demons an improvement, as a movie scenario, over The Da Vinci Code, however spectacular a publishing success that was. The Da Vinci Code sold more than 60 million copies in 40 languages, graced the New York Times best-seller list for 144 weeks, or nearly three years, and inspired parodies in both hard-core (The Da Vinci Load) and soft-core movies (The Da Vinci Coed). People picked it up and couldn't put it down, in part because it was a very bookish book: an elaborate web of church lore leading...
...copper and steel statue - formally named Liberty Enlightening the World - has been a fixture of New York City and a symbol for the nation since its dedication by President Grover Cleveland in October 1886. The 225-ton monument arrived a year earlier in 214 crates as a gift from France. Including her pedestal and foundation, Lady Liberty reaches 305 feet; her index finger measures eight feet long, tipped by a 13-inch fingernail. Designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to celebrate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, the statue's $250,000 tab was covered via donations...
...statue's crown would one day re-open, either. The monument's designers never intended to have visitors inside, and the hot interior meets no fire codes and offers no emergency exit other than a single steep, vertigo-inducing staircase. But in the years since Sept. 11, New York's political leaders pushed relentlessly to open the crown and its 25 windows to the public. "It probably isn't completely safe to have everyone go up, in any numbers, at any time," Rep. Anthony Weiner conceded to the New York Times earlier this year. "But the Park Service is full...
...pictures of New York City...
...Completed yearlong fellowships at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1998 and in 2000 at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, where he reportedly ran 12 miles every day from his Brooklyn home to his Manhattan office...