NEW YORK (AP) — The developer behind a cluster of skyscrapers rising near the Hudson River raised eyebrows when he boasted the project would be anchored by a monumental sculpture that would be the city's Eiffel Tower.
NEW YORK (AP) — The developer behind a cluster of skyscrapers rising near the Hudson River raised eyebrows when he boasted the project would be anchored by a monumental sculpture that would be the city's Eiffel Tower.
NEW YORK (AP) — The developer behind a cluster of skyscrapers rising near the Hudson River raised eyebrows when he boasted the project would be anchored by a monumental sculpture that would be the city's Eiffel Tower.
The concrete and steel structure, which looks like an inverted honeycomb, will stand in a 5-acre public plaza in Manhattan. Heatherwick, whose other projects include the cauldron for the 2012 Olympics in London, said the sculpture "is the ultimate seeing-each-other device," because people climbing it would be able to see others on other platforms and those below. The public square where "Vessel" will stand is planned as an outdoor venue for performances and art exhibits, with landscaping that includes 28,000 plants and trees. Читать дальше...
NEW YORK (AP) — The developer behind a cluster of skyscrapers rising near the Hudson River raised eyebrows when he boasted the project would be anchored by a monumental sculpture that would be the city's Eiffel Tower.
Renée Zellweger in “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” which has a whiff of nostalgia for the quaint misbehavior and silly fantasies of yesteryear.
Delaney Robinson, 19, claims police told linebacker Allen Artis, 21, "not to sweat it" after she accused him of raping her on Valentine's Day.
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Brazilian prosecutors have filed corruption charges against former President Lula and his wife.
Colin Kaepernick’s protest against social injustice is being heard loud and clear by young athletes across the country and a host of high school football players have emulated the San Francisco quarterback in recent weeks by kneeling during the national anthem before their own games. That’s where the issue gets complicated. In football-crazy states such
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A Day to Remember rules three Billboard rock album charts, as Bad Vibrations, the Florida-based quintet's sixth studio set, opens at No. 1 on Top...
US President Barack Obama's comparison of Russian President Vladimir Putin to controversial deceased Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is "absolutely absurd," Russia's UN Envoy Vitaly Churkin said Wednesday.
He’s responsible for a staggering 5,300 employees who cheated you and me, says Tim Mullaney.
All my Francophiles, stand up. Justice is back in action and serving up mad crumbs. The silent smoky duo just shared the second single from its...
Colin Kaepernick's protest against social injustice is being heard loud and clear by young athletes across the country and a host of high school football players have emulated the San Francisco quarterback in recent weeks by kneeling during the national anthem before their own games. Michael Walsh, diocese spokesman, called the letter a "precautionary notice in light of what had been occurring at the professional level." David L. Hudson Jr., author of "Let The Students Speak: A History of the Fight... Читать дальше...
Colin Kaepernick's protest against social injustice is being heard loud and clear by young athletes across the country and a host of high school football players have emulated the San Francisco quarterback in recent weeks by kneeling during the national…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian investigators on Wednesday charged former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with money laundering and corruption, calling him the "maximum commander" of the mammoth graft scandal roiling Latin America's largest nation.
Colin Kaepernick's protest against social injustice is being heard loud and clear by young athletes across the country and a host of high school football players have emulated the San Francisco quarterback in recent weeks by kneeling during the national…
Confessed al-Qaida foot soldier Majid Khan withdrew a legally clouded terror charge from his 2012 guilty plea Wednesday and invoked President Barack Obama’s attitude toward the CIA’s secret prison program that tortured captives like him: “Just move on.”
Police believe the officers were sickened by airborne particles of the powerful painkiller fentanyl or heroin, or both.
A National Rifle Association-backed group has begun airing a TV ad featuring the Nevada state attorney general and three sheriffs urging voters to ...
Aqui está o motivo pelo qual você não consegue ver todos os pontos pretos de uma só vez.
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American seed and weed-killer company Monsanto and German medicine and farm chemical maker Bayer are combining in a deal that could help farmers produce higher yields to address challenges from global warming to rising food demand from a fast-growing global population. Consumers could benefit from more-affordable and healthier food options as well as the companies' using their expertise to help farmers limit their chemical use and environmental impact, company executives said Wednesday after the all-cash deal was announced. Читать дальше...
The Sharps’ War’ filmmaker Artemis Joukowsky shot the movie before he brought on Burns Ken Burns is the big name attached to the PBS documentary Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War, but the famed director says his work was just polishing already great material from co-director Artemis Joukowsky. The film documents the work of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind to help save hundreds of imperiled political dissidents... Читать дальше...