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Los Angeles-based architects Studio SHIFT and SWA Group recently won a competition to revitalize New South Town in the Sichuan Provence of China. What you see here are the renderings for the Miyi Tower, an incredibly forward-thinking architectural design.

The above-ground part of China’s Miyi Tower will be a community space, packed with amenities that, according to Inhabitat, will feature educational, entertainment and community programs specifically target towards promoting Chinese heritage and natural resources. There will be an auditorium, restaurants and exhibition spaces implemented throughout.

Beneath the community space part of Miyi Tower, but, the magic really starts. State-of-the-art mechanical and natural filtration in the southern part of the tower will filter the heavily-polluted Anning River and thereby transform it into a habitat to support a thriving ecosystem.

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The Miss America pageant has its TLC reality television debut Saturday night. Earlier in the week the contestants had the swimsuit competition on the road to the finale.

One British paper remarked on the visible musculature of some of the contestants:

The Miss America pageant 2009 is set to be one of the fiercest fought events in history, contested nearly exclusively by Amazonian gym buddies with seriously sculpted figures.

The swimsuit segment of the show in the heats at the Planet Hollywood resort in Las Vegas confirmed that a new breed of female athletes are going for glory, a far weep from the very natural looking girls-next-door who have competed down the 80 years of the competition’s history.
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Reuters – India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent successful coronary bypass surgery on Saturday, while confusion emerged about who was in charge of government just months before a general election.

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