Bulldozers Meet Historic Chinese Neighborhood bi13651715 BEIJING -- Mao slept here. So, too, did the imperial eunuchs who found themselves unemployed after China's last emperor was sent packing. For much of the last 700 years, however, the most prominent residents of the quarter just north of the Forbidden City have been a pair of massive brick towers whose drums and bells helped Beijing's citizenry keep track of the hour

Playing Google's Game bi13651715 Would you want to have a hand making sure online ads you see are of interest to you?..

Provisional results for a year just beginning bi13651715 Now well-anchored the month of January, the SIHH, celebrated 20th anniversary year, has become a major pole of attraction for the watch industry

Museums-East Bay Through July 25 bi13651715 AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT OAKLAND The Oakland Public Library's museum designed to discover, preserve, interpret and share the cultural and historical experiences of African Americans California and the West. In addition, a three-panel mural on permanent display

Books come undone Walnut Creek exhibit bi13651715 The first cut feels strangely transgressive. But as the knife sinks deeper, and shapes and forms begin to emerge from the pages, well, there's really no experience quite like making art from a book

Holy Horology bi13651715 Everything began by a mass or service on Tuesday April 10, the day before the opening of BaselWorld. At the end of the day, a small el-egant crowd gathered at the Elizabethan Kirche Basel, squeezing together on the church benches under the high and colourful stained glass windows

Stage-East Bay Through August 1 bi13651715 "Steel Magnolias," by Robert Harling, through Aug. 8, Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.; Jul. 29, Aug. 5, 8 p.m. Truvy's beauty salon small-town Louisiana the social nucleus for a close-knit circle of women. $19-$22

Nine O'Clock bi13651715 Insurgents managed to land at least 5 rockets near the airport and diplomatic area

Musings on Kids and Asia bi13651715 By Vitaliy N. Katsenelson. I have not written articles a few months, except for the one I wrote for the July issue of Institutional Investor magazine, on Japan (I'll post a link once the magazine comes out).. I am sure Freud, after spending a few minutes my subconscious, would provide some disturbing explanations. But as Freud said, sometimes a cigar just a cigar. I've just been ..

Downtown Stillwater shop features decades-old architectural drawings bi13651715 Walk past St. Croix Booksellers, and won't necessarily be the books that grab you. The window near the store's main entrance filled hand- architectural drawings from the late 1800s

New signs add artistic flair to Pennington Farmers Market bi13651715 The Pennington Farmers Markets appearance at the recent Pennington Day community festival marked the unveiling of new road signs by Natalie Winters, a junior at Hopewell Valley Central High School

Preview: Who's The Man @ The Future Gallery bi13651715 Photograph of Rudy de Belgeonne by Chris Osburn Faggot, lady killer, head honcho, diamond geezer, nerd: these are but a smattering of the 1000 words used to describe and define man on vivid display as hand- panels by artist Rudy de Belgeonne . Five years the making, de Belgeonne's encyclopedic Who's the Man exhibition features a wall of words apparently inspired by all the weird and ..

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