In the two years since Hurricane Katrina, what has the rebuilding effort produced? No grand designs. No inspired vision for the future of New Orleans. There have been only a handful of earnest, grassroots proposals to preserve what's left of the city's historic fabric
NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
In the two years since Hurricane Katrina, what has the rebuilding effort produced? No grand designs. No inspired vision for the future of New Orleans. There have been only a handful of earnest, grassroots proposals to preserve what's left of the historic fabric.

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Vint Cerf - one of the researchers who helped build the Internet - predicts that traditional television is on the way out and says Web TV is the future
By Bobbie Johnson
Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionized millions of lives around the world. But Sunday the man known as the "godfather of the net" laid out his vision of where our online future might be, including a time when we download entire TV series in seconds - and even surf the Web from Mars.

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Bob Cassilly has been working for seven years to turn a derelict cement factory in a gritty part of St Louis into a giant art installation/park filled with his sculptures
By MATTHEW SUMMERS-SPARKS
In an industrial area here known for truck yards, not art, a sculptor and entrepreneur named Bob Cassilly stands on a 30m-tall hill, created from some of the 182,000 truckloads of dirt that have been unloaded and applied to the skeleton of a former cement factory.

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The gallery is aimed at promoting a more progressive image of the extremism-hit South Asian nation, where the cultural scene in the visual arts has often been overshadowed
AP, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Pakistan's painstakingly built National Art Gallery has overcome decades of political turbulence to become an eye-catching symbol of modernity and creativity in a Muslim nation long haunted by religious conservatism.

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By Jonathan Biddle
It happens to the best of us. You wake up one sunny morning ready to check your e-mail, and your personal computer emits a cheerful bleep, accompanied by the delicate clicking sound of your hard disc drive handing in its notice.

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