Peace And War ... And The Arts And Sciences

University of California at Berkeley's new East Asian Library which opened this week; and the soon to open, sustainable California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. The Academy -- designed by Rienzo Piano -- was constructed with 70% recycled cement and 100% recycled steel.

Photo credits: (c) University of California at Berkeley and www.greenroofs.com. With thanks.

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Prokofiev's Война и мир [War and Peace].

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kultur-multur.org Where Central Asia Meets Central Europe

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I will be on travel starting tomorrow and will be posting sporadically... again. My apologies and my deep thanks for your reading. Please, feel free to post comments or send e-mails, which I will try to respond to fairly promptly. My apologies for a few remaining outstanding responses. I remember who you are and I apologize for my delay responding.