Destination News - Destination, Rail, Road.
Nov 5, 2007 The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, responsible for marketing Southern Nevada as a tourism and convention destination worldwide, has named Nancy Murphy as vice president of resort industry and business relations. Murphy will be the designated liaison between the LVCVA and southern Nevada's...

Lothar Hempel: Magasin--Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.
IN 1996 Nicolas Bourriaud included Lothar Hempel in "Traffic" at CAPC in Bordeaux, France, placing the German artist alongside numerous others of his generation such as Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Since then, Hempel's star has perhaps not burned as brightly as these other artists', but this...

Ouvrages theoriques/essais.
Didier Arnaudet, Des artistes, des écrits [une anthologie], Le bleu du ciel, 2006, Bordeaux (France), 234 p. Pierre Ouellet, À force de voir, Histoire de regards, Éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2005, 238 p., ill. coul. et n. et b. Sous la direction d'Isabelle Lelarge et...

Geared for growth.
With a total of 800 companies covering the full spectrum of civil and military aerospace activities, the area of Southwest France extending from Toulouse to Bordeaux is home to a range of industrial, research and test facilities that is exceptional in its width and depth. Though historically Toulouse and...

On the cutting edge in R&D.
With an exceptional concentration of research laboratories and design bureaus, the region claims to be the "brain" of Europe's aerospace industry As well as being the heart of Europe's aerospace establishment, the region of S.W. France also merits a reputation as the "brain" of the industry, in...

Books received.
(April-June 2002) ABIFARES, HUDA SMITHSHUIJZEN. Arabic Typography: A Comprehensive Sourcebook. London: Saqi Books, 2001. 263 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0863563473). ACKERMAN, JAMES S. Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 326 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00...

The biggest.
The U.S., already the leading world market in wine sales, will become the world's leading consumer of wines by volume by 2008, according to the International Wine and Spirits Record (IWSR) in a report commissioned for the major international wine trade show Vinexpo. According to the report,...

New Technique Invented by Doctors at Englewood Hospital Minimizes Complications of Cardiac Ablation Procedure.
Research Led by Drs. Simons and Feigenblum Published in Prestigious Medical Journal ENGLEWOOD, N.J., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center have pioneered a new imaging technique that will greatly reduce the chances of potentially deadly complications. The innovative technique allows physicians to...

Portraits of another time.
Along, long time well before cell phones could take ago, pictures, prior to the development of photography in general, portrait artists captured how people looked with oil on canvas. The really good portrait artists also revealed something of their subject's soul. So it was with Gilbert Stuart, the famed...

Fayat to acquire Bomag Company.
In a deal expected to have been finalized last month, SPX Corp. has announced it has reached an agreement to sell its Bomag Company to the Fayat Group for a reported $446 million in cash. Bomag was expected to have 2004 revenues of roughly $490 million. A...