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London's St. Pancras station has a new interactive art 'gallery'
1 Britain Waiting for the train is an art form at Eurostar's new London terminal, St. Pancras International. In its lofty, marble-floored departure area, passengers get their last taste of British cultural life before boarding the high-speed train to...Tags: William Hogarth, England, Cape Town (South Africa), Travel, Death
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China will airlift eight pandas to Beijing
ReutersBEIJING -- China has sent emergency bamboo-shoot rations to pandas at a reserve in the Sichuan earthquake zone because no one there is collecting it for them, state media said Thursday. China's most devastating earthquake in decades killed 47 people...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Summer Olympics, Agricultural Research and Technology, Forests, Multi-Sport Events
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News from around the world
The Associated PressDisney's Space Mountain will close for a makeover One of Walt Disney World's iconic attractions is getting a makeover. Disney said Wednesday that it will shut down Space Mountain this spring for what the company described as a months-long "refreshment"...Tags: AirTran, Transportation, JetBlue Airways, Terrorism, Trips and Vacations
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Businesses in China take a pre-Olympics hit
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJune is normally one of the busiest months in this commercial hub, home to the largest wholesale market in the world. Traders from around the globe descend here to bargain with tens of thousands of merchants and place their year-end orders. But walk...Tags: Harley-Davidson Inc., Immigration, 2016 Olympic Games, Trips and Vacations, Sales
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In China, the game has changed
Squinting through a haze of drizzle and dust, his normally starched white shirt wrinkled and muddied, he climbed unsteadily up a pile of broken concrete and twisted steel where a building once stood. Looking tired but determined, he shouted words of...Tags: CNN (tv network), Georgetown University, Disasters, 2016 Olympic Games, Armed Forces
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'Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God' by Amos Nur with Dawn Burgess
WHAT IF Troy was destroyed by an earthquake? What really brought down the walls of Jericho or the Colossus of Rhodes? These are some of the questions Stanford University geophysicist Amos Nur raises in "Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the...Tags: Archaeology, Stanford University, Natural Disasters, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Ted Koppel gives a lesson on China in a four-part Discovery Channel documentary.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Ted Koppel knows that persuading television viewers to tune into a four-part documentary about China's economic growth could be a difficult sell. So in the days leading to the broadcast of his latest Discovery Channel program, the veteran...Tags: John Alexander, Television Industry, ABC (tv network), Multi-Sport Events, PBS (tv network)
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Game on! Chinese, Americans in 'pingpong diplomacy' rematch
George Braithwaite crouched behind the pingpong table, then uncoiled and smashed the ball at Liang Geliang, who sent back a forehand laced with heavy spin. Game on! Thirty-seven years after the two men participated in a week of table tennis exhibition...Tags: Summer Olympics, William McKinley, Multi-Sport Events, United Nations, George Washington
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Noel Irwin Hentschel calls on friends to help with China quake aid
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterENTERTAINMENT industry moguls and various local billionaires seem to have two favorite California Republicans: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (of course) and the not as well known but equally liked Noel Irwin Hentschel. This week, the Bel Air entrepreneur...Tags: Republican Party, Beijing (China), Burt Bacharach, William Friedkin, American Red Cross
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Pandas from China quake region drawing crowds at Beijing Zoo
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBeijing The most famous refugees from last month's earthquake in Sichuan province lounge on their backs chewing long stalks of bamboo. Like bored celebrities, they shrug off the camera flashes on the other side of glass and the endless repetition of...Tags: Summer Olympics, Disasters, Multi-Sport Events, Olympic Games, Wildlife
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In-depth tour of San Francisco's Chinatown
Times Staff WriterSan Francisco — IT'S Chinatown. You've been there and done that, strolling vaguely under the dragon gate at Grant Avenue, dawdling past the kitschy gift shops, then strolling out again, maybe not much wiser, maybe not much merrier. Me too. But...Tags: Festive Events, Career and Workplace, U.S. Airways, Minority Groups, Transportation
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How to help
These are some of the charities accepting donations to help victims of Monday's earthquake in China: American Red Cross P.O. Box 4002018 Des Moines, IA 50340-2018 (800) HELP-NOW www.redcross.org AmeriCares 88 Hamilton Ave. Stamford, CT 06902 (800) 486-...Tags: AmeriCares, Stamford, Des Moines (Polk, Iowa), American Red Cross, Portland (Middlesex, Connecticut)
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