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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Iconic observatory reopens

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The Griffith Observatory, home for stargazers and a famous backdrop for such stars as James Dean and Arnold Schwarzenegger, reopened on Friday after a four-year, $93 million makeover.

Known by many as the setting for key scenes in such movies as the 1955 Dean classic "Rebel Without A Cause" and Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1984 film "The Terminator," the observatory and planetarium atop the Hollywood Hills has been a Los Angeles fixture for more than 70 years.

Opened in 1935, the Griffith Observatory was the dream of landowner and keen amateur astronomer Griffith Jenkins Griffith, who had a vision of making astronomy and observation accessible to everyone.

The renovation, the first in the observatory's history, has doubled the size of the facilities, although most of the extra space is underground so as not to change the familiar skyline.

The three-domed building, visible for miles and offering a bird's eye view of Los Angeles, the second-largest U.S. city.

Griffith Observatory also had a backdrop role in movies and TV shows including "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "The Simpsons." Much of "Rebel Without a Cause" was shot there and a bust of the late James Dean -- who died in a car crash before the film was released -- stands on the grounds.

The observatory now boasts a state-of-the-art planetarium, new exhibition galleries and a 200-seat theater. The renovation was financed by the city and Friends of the Observatory.

Fire burns Gatorland; 2 pythons, 1 crocodile killed

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- A three-alarm fire broke out in one of central Florida's oldest attractions early Monday morning, killing three animals but injuring no one at Gatorland.

Gatorland spokeswoman Michelle Harris said two 8-foot (2.4-meter)-long pythons kept in a holding pen near the gift shop were dead, as was a 5-foot (1.5-meter)-long crocodile.

The blaze charred the concrete alligator mouth tourists walked through to enter the park -- an old Florida icon that has appeared in movies, magazines and countless tourists' pictures.

A crocodile named Mr. O, who was kept in the same area with the animals who died, was feared dead but was later found alive, Harris said. He stayed safe by dipping underwater in a pond, Harris said.

The other few thousand of the park's animals were kept in pens away from the fire or in enough water to protect them.

The fire, reported at 5:55 a.m. ET, destroyed the park's 7,000-square-foot (630-square-meter) gift shop, entrance and some administrative offices. Other office space and the places where Gatorland entertainers perform were not damaged.

The park opened in 1949 and attracts about 400,000 tourists each year. It features exhibitions of people wrestling gators, a "jumparoo" show where the big reptiles leap for food, and "up close" encounters where guests can hold snakes, scorpions, spiders and birds.

Orange County Fire Battalion Chief Vince Preston said the souvenir store was engulfed in flames when the first crews arrived.

"It had already been through the roof; it was obvious that this was going to be an extended operation," he said.

Preston said it took about two hours to get the blaze under control. It was declared out, despite some nagging hot spots, at about 12:30 p.m. ET.

Harris said the giant gator mouth was still potentially salvageable.

She said officials would try to reopen the park as soon as possible, but it was unclear when that may be. They will have to create another entrance for guests.

"This park is like an old alligator. Gators fight, they get scarred up, they get beat up, they tear each other up, but they're resilient," Williams said. "This park's been here for 57 years. We're not going anywhere. It's the alligator capital of the world. It's got a few scars and smudges on it, but we'll clean it up."

Report: Half of runways don't have safety zone

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than half of U.S. commercial airports don't have a 1,000-foot margin at the end of a runway, an overrun area the federal government says is needed as a safety zone, according to a new report.

Some of the busiest airports in the country -- including Los Angeles International Airport, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport -- have more than one runway that doesn't meet safety standards, according to statistics supplied by the Federal Aviation Administration.

"Our runways are out of shape, and the Bush administration has failed to move to correct the problem," Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, said Thursday. "If we don't get serious about runway problems, the result could be disastrous."

The FAA says it is diligently upgrading the runways. The agency expects that all of them will meet the standard by 2015, when they are legally required to do so, according to FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown.

"Today, 70 percent of commercial service runways have a runway safety area within 90 percent of the standard," Brown said. She said 236 runways were improved as of September 22.

At 325 airports -- more than half of the 573 commercial airports in the United States -- at least one runway lacks the 1,000-foot safety zone, according to the FAA's own figures. Almost half of all commercial runways -- 507 of 1,017 -- don't meet the safety standard.

Deadly airplane crashes can happen on runways because they're too short, improperly lit, poorly designed or lack safety equipment. A minor procedural error by a pilot or an air traffic controller can turn tragic if a vehicle or another airplane happens to be in the way.

Mishaps, fatal crashes linked to runways

Federal safety investigators are looking into three runway mishaps this week alone: An Alaska Airlines jet landed on the wrong runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; two airliners clipped wings while taxiing at Newark Liberty International Airport; and another jet landed on a taxiway at Newark.

The wrong runway may have been used more frequently than the FAA previously thought. The agency searched 5.4 million records over 10 years and found flight crews said they were confused about runways 117 times, according to FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. (See how your state measures up)

As a result of the data search, Brown said, the FAA is exploring ways to prevent pilot confusion.

Within the past year, two fatal commercial airline crashes involved runways.

In August, 49 people were killed when a Comair regional jet took off on the wrong runway at Lexington Blue Grass Airport in Kentucky.

In December, a 6-year-old boy in a car was killed when a Southwest Airlines 737 overran a runway at Chicago's Midway Airport and plowed into the street.

There have been 45 fatal crashes due to aircraft overrunning runways since 1983, according to Lautenberg.

Part of the problem is that some airports were built in congested urban areas and have no room to lengthen their runways.

One solution is to install soft concrete beds at the end of a runway. Called Engineered Material Arresting Systems, or EMAS, they slow an airplane that rolls off the end of a runway.

Last month, a private jet carrying Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez overran a runway at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., and was brought to a halt by an EMAS bed.

Storm shuts Rainier park for first time in 26 years

YAKIMA, Washington (AP) -- Heavy rain has caused so much damage at Mount Rainier National Park that officials have closed the attraction for the first time in 26 years.

Nearly 18 inches of rain in 36 hours swamped roads and bridges and cut power and sewer lines.

Initial cleanup will take weeks. Park officials say they hope to return to normal operations by Christmas. In some places, they won't know the extent of the damage until after the snow melts in the spring.

"Some places get that much rain in a year, and we had it in 36 hours," said park spokeswoman Lee Taylor, noting the 17.9 inches of rain that fell Sunday and Monday. "When we were finally able to get out and start assessing the damage, it was a very sobering day."

The Pineapple Express storm, named for its origin in warm Pacific waters, wreaked havoc across the region. It damaged hundreds of homes, washed out a major highway near Oregon's Mount Hood, closed part of the North Cascades Highway in Washington, and was blamed for at least three deaths in the two states.

Farther east, Montana's Glacier National Park received close to a foot of rain, causing widespread flooding and damaging the popular Going-to-the-Sun Road. The park's Flattop Mountain got 8.5 inches of rain on Tuesday alone, roughly tripling the previous record over the past 25 years, Ranger Matt Graves said.

Most rivers were easing on Friday, and the National Weather Service said the precipitation through the weekend wasn't expected to cause more flooding, in part, because the mountains were expected to get mostly snow. Recovery and damage assessments, particularly in hard-hit parts of western Washington, are likely to take weeks.

At Mount Rainier, the Nisqually River engulfed the main scenic highway through the park, leaving a quarter-mile gash in the Nisqually Road. The river now flows where a campground once stood.

All other roads in the park closed November 1 for the winter, though they also suffered extensive damage. Highway 123 and the Stevens Canyon Road were impassible because of multiple washouts. The dirt Carbon Canyon Road was washed out in six places.

The Nisqually River wiped out the main power line, cutting electricity for the western half of the park, as well as the main sewer line at Longmire, where a historic inn sits.

Officials last closed the park in 1980 when nearby Mount St. Helens erupted.

"An optimistic estimate for repairs is two weeks for some road access. Utility repair work could still take longer, which would mean there are still no services at Longmire," Taylor said. "We're hoping we can have normal operations for the Christmas holiday."

Christmas is a popular season at Mount Rainier, with rangers offering guided snowshoe walks and cross-country skiers hitting the trails. Sledding takes place at the base of the mountain.

Getting the Nisqually Road reopened is key to those activities, as well as to construction on the Paradise Inn, an aging lodge and restaurant built in 1917 that is undergoing refurbishment.

The contractor handling the construction was working to seal the inn's roof to prevent water damage, Taylor said.

Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga flew over the area Thursday to assess the damage and was working to determine a cost estimate for repairs. In the meantime, crews were furiously working to fix the main road.

"Our focus is on the winter access route, so we can get that open again," Taylor said. "But if we aren't able to do repair work now, then it will have to wait until the spring melt-out, and that could delay some of the spring openings here."

Italy's newest arts district is born

It's not easy to compete with Florence and the Vatican, but with the overhaul of one gritty neighborhood, Bologna is stepping out of the shadows.

Thanks in part to its location near the Reno River, Bologna has long been a manufacturing hub. But these days, the city is making an effort to manufacture something of a more creative nature: modern art and design.

Bologna was named a European Capital of Culture in 2000; as a result, it raised $10 million to transform a blighted neighborhood in the northwest -- a 15-minute walk from the city center -- into an arts hub. Up to that point, a former slaughterhouse, salt warehouse and tobacco warehouse were deserted. Now, a million-square-foot area is being refashioned into a complex called Manifattura delle Arti, or Factory of the Arts.

The former slaughterhouse was gutted in 2003, then turned into the Cineteca, a center for film research and restoration. It houses the Charlie Chaplin film archives; Chaplin fans can borrow DVDs of his movies from the airy, light-filled library and watch them at screening stations that are available to the public free of charge. In a connected building are two art-house theaters named after the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, who held the first public movie screening in Paris in 1895. "When we opened, they ran a film about the area," says Cecilia Cenciarelli, coordinator of the archives. "They interviewed this old man who talked about seeing a pig get slaughtered. It was incredibly funny."

Across the way, the salt warehouse was converted into a new home for Cassero, the city's gay and lesbian center. There's a disco and a backyard garden, where raucous parties take place on hot summer nights. "They're so much fun, and everyone goes," Cenciarelli says.

Art galleries, design shops and lounges are sprouting up all around the district. Giulia Allegri, born and raised in Bologna, didn't think twice about returning after studying in Ravenna. She opened her gallery, Agenzia 04, in the Manifattura area in 2004. "I felt like something was happening here," says the petite redhead. Allegri's success attracted new businesses like Galleria Neon, which shows contemporary artists and Metropolis Photogallery, a shop that sells furniture as well as photography. Gallery owners and visitors now meet up for drinks at Stile Libero. Nearby, a store called Fratelli Broche stocks Italian housewares, vintage clothing and accessories. "We all go to each other's openings, and we all know and support each other," says Allegri.

Longtime friends Lenina Barducci and Maura Conti opened Zo Caffè in 2004, a couple of blocks from where Agenzia 04 stands now. "We wanted to create something that didn't exist in Bologna, a place where you can really meet people doing all sorts of interesting things," explains Barducci, a tall, skinny woman with cropped hair. The renovated warehouse is a café, late-night spot for ambient-music DJs and art gallery. Vintage 1970s TVs serve as decoration, and the menu is written on blackboards. Young couples sit at wood tables, chatting over Prosecco and paninis.

If the film center, art galleries and shops haven't yet put the Manifattura district on the tourist map, the city's modern art museum, MAMbo (Il Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna) surely will. After nearly a decade of construction, it moves into a former bakery next May.

Activities

  • Cineteca via Azzo Gardino 65, 011-39/051-219-5311
  • Agenzia 04 via Brugnoli 19/c, 011-39/051-649-0104
  • Galleria Neon via Zanardi 2/5, 011-39/051-587-7068
  • Metropolis Photogallery viale Pietro Pietramellara 3/a, 011-39/ 051-524-800
  • Shopping

  • Fratelli Broche via del Rondone 2/e, 011-39/349-009-3963
  • Nightlife

  • Cassero via Don Minzoni 18, 011-39/ 051-528-0391
  • Stile Libero via delle Lame 108 a/b, 011-39/335-562-5578
  • Zo Caffè via Lodovico Berti 15/b, 011-39/ 051-588-3469, Prosecco $4
  • Fusion dining in Lima: Machu Picchu can wait

    LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The tour buses don't line up outside Javier Wong's place.

    His 10-table Sankuay restaurant, steps away from a wide avenue lined with tire and rim vendors in Lima's industrial La Victoria district, is sort of a speakeasy for ceviche, raw fish soaked in lime juice and pepper that is Peru's best-known dish.

    Wong prepares a ceviche so striking it is bound to make even the crankiest traveler forget his jet lag and the rows of soot-encrusted buildings around the corner.

    Known as Chez Wong by locals, the restaurant is in his three-story home, so don't bother to look for a sign outside. Just say the chef's name when the door cracks open and you get a suspicious look.

    There are no menus at Sankuay. Wong, who was born of Chinese ancestry, will determine your first and second courses with a quick glance at your party.

    Peru's sprawling, chaotic capital is for most travelers little more than a launching pad to other destinations like Cuzco, the main stopover en route to Peru's top tourist attraction, Machu Picchu.

    But it's worth spending more than the 24 requisite hours in Lima just to sample the restaurants.

    This city of 8 million people is a focal point for a cuisine that has exploded in the United States, where Peruvian dishes have appeared in some of the most prestigious food magazines.

    Lima chefs like Wong take particular advantage of the high quality and variety of fish that thrive in cold Humbolt Current waters that run northward past the coastal capital.

    Behind a spotless white counter, wearing his signature woven golf cap, Wong vigorously chops an onion with his $900-Victorinox knife. In a metal bowl he stirs it with cubes of fresh raw flounder, juice from acidic Peruvian limes, aji (Peruvian chilies), salt and ground pepper.

    He dumps the fragrant mix unceremoniously onto an oval plate. Absent are the traditional ceviche additions of camote (sweet potato) and choclo (corn with huge white kernels). Wong's ceviche is salty and the unorthodox use of ground pepper gives the dish a crunch. The fish's texture is not lost but enhanced by the juicy mix's strong flavor.

    A blue and orange flame encircles his deep paella dish as he shakes a stir-fry of green onions, soy beans, flounder chunks, red peppers and four tablespoons of beer.

    "Every day you're in the kitchen, you discover something new," Wong says above the sizzle.

    Asian ingredients

    The secret to this fusion of Asian and Peruvian cuisine found in fine restaurants throughout Lima is the country's intricately woven ethnic tapestry. Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought with them Asian ingredients, cooking techniques and a new take on traditional dishes, especially on the capital's beloved seafood plates.

    One of Peru's best-known chefs is Humberto Sato. A primary school classmate of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, Sato later ended up catering Fujimori's wedding years before the authoritarian leader was elected president in 1990.

    Sato -- like Fujimori -- was born in Peru to Japanese parents. He incorporates many Japanese techniques and dishes into the menu at his restaurant, Costanera 700.

    Sato catered a 1996 lunch between Fujimori and then-Ecuadorean President Abdala Bucaram on the heels of a border war that gave way to peace negotiations.

    "Fujimori loved the fish heads, I remember," Sato says. The lunch Sato served, his famed "ceviche de la paz" or "ceviche of peace," is still on the menu.

    But the real treat at Costanera is chita a la sal, a white ocean fish baked in a thick coat of salt. Winter (June-August in the Southern Hemisphere) is the best time to eat chita because the water is colder and the fish build up more fat, Sato says.

    The salt-encrusted fish is dabbed with rum and served flaming. The waiter taps a knife with a spoon to break open the shell of salt and serves generous portions of the buttery fish into deep bowls.

    Small dishes of hot butter, garlic, olive oil and parsley, and ginger and green onion are also served, each presenting a strong and delightful enhancement to the fish, which smacks against your molars when chewed.

    Reasonable pricing

    Historically, Peruvians have avoided eating fish at night, especially ceviche. Before the advent of refrigeration, the morning's catch would have spoiled by dinnertime.

    Many Peruvians still believe eating fish and seafood at night will make one ill, says Peru's foremost celebrity chef Gaston Acurio. He's battled against that perception.

    His 12-year-old flagship restaurant Astrid y Gaston serves a nighttime ceviche guaranteed to wake you up. Raw corvina (sea bass) and octopus sits in a spicy tiradito sauce of yellow aji with small pieces of sweet potato and corn kernels.

    Gaston plans to open branches of one of his other restaurants, the always-crowded lunchtime "cevicheria," La Mar, in Washington, San Diego and San Francisco next year. All will serve ceviche for dinner.

    For a hot second course, try shrimp and squid in a sweet sauce of condensed milk, tamarind and peanuts, served with crispy rice noodles.

    Prices in the city's restaurants vary widely, but all are reasonable, if not cheap by North American and European standards.

    And while travelers shouldn't drink the local tap water, the fish is so fresh that anybody who would eat sushi in New York or Miami should feel comfortable eating ceviche in Lima's restaurants.

    Another culinary must is the chic restaurant, Rafael. Off the bustling Larco Avenue, in the upscale Miraflores district, you can smell the olive oil sizzling from down the block.

    The stylish decor of the eight-table lounge, with plush couches, and the warm, dim light of large maroon fabric-covered ceiling lamps, make it a delightful place to escape Lima's humid evening chill.

    The spiky haired, 36-year-old chef, Rafael Osterling, stammers when he tries to describe his style. The menu includes sashimi, pizza, grilled octopus and gnocchi.

    Though he trained in London and at the Cordon Bleu culinary school, Osterling says dishes come from his own experiments in the kitchen.

    Any trip to Rafael should include the crunchy shrimp tempura appetizer in a sweet and spicy sauce over a salad of cucumber, mango, avocado and Cajun-spiced nuts.

    Try Osterling's spaghettini with marinated lobster in a garlic confit, served with lemon and basil.

    "Before, tourists would just pass through Lima ... and immediately go to Cuzco," says Osterling. "Now they stay one, two, three days."

    Finally, have lunch or dinner at Toshiro's. A traditional Japanese restaurant with a Peruvian twist, Toshiro Konishi's tranquil, five-year-old restaurant is perched above a casino in the wealthy San Isidro district.

    Toshiro, who was born in Japan, serves up a flounder tiradito sliced so expertly thin that the plate's design shows through. It's served with a sauce of soy, green onion and rocoto, a spicy Peruvian pepper.

    "No one can make these dishes," he said. "Not even in Tokyo could you eat this."