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M&R: Olympic torch's S.F. route up in air
The Olympic torch debate just keeps getting hotter - but then, its route through San Francisco may be getting shorter. The April 9 traversing of the torch through the city is proving to be a magnet for all sorts of anti-China protesters, backing the causes of Tibet, the Sudanese region of Darfur and even Burmese monks. We're told the Chinese government is so spooked by what might happen that there's talk of shortening the torch's San Francisco course. That course is still a bit of a mystery, as city officials claim it hasn't been set in stone. We do know the route is supposed to be a smidge over 8 miles in length, but now the Chinese have asked that it be cut to more like 6 miles. There was even talk of scratching the run altogether and replacing it with a ceremony at Civic Center.
France's Jean Nouvel, Century City tower designer, wins Pritzker
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The designer of a soaring, glass-shelled condo planned for Century City is the winner of this year's Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor. French architect Jean Nouvel is singled out in the Prizker jury citation for his "persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation." Nouvel is the architect behind Paris' Arab World Institute and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. In the works for the architect is a nearly Chrysler Building-sized tower next to New York's Museum of Modern Art. The project in Century City will display verdant gardens visible behind its glass walls Nouvel says for him, "every project is an adventure." Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
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