Today south Jiangsu remains one of the richest parts of China, and Shanghai, arguably the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan of mainland China cities, is a direct extension of south Jiangsu culture.

Today ( 2002 census data ), 87. 61 % of the town population are Serbs, while it also maintained its old cosmopolitan spirit of inter-ethnic tolerance.

Today it continues to undergo gentrification, noted for its Victorian architecture, cosmopolitan demographic, commercial and older industrial areas.

Today, this one-block plaza and surrounding area is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, gift shops, art galleries, and beauty salons in the United States, making Union Square a major tourist destination, a vital, cosmopolitan gathering place in downtown San Francisco, and one of the world's premier shopping districts.

Today, Bongao is a minuscule cosmopolitan that is becoming a model of multicultural society.

Today, the suburb is cosmopolitan, reflecting the waves of immigration to post war Australia.

Today, Santo Domingo is the Dominican Republic's major metropolis, and is the largest city in the Caribbean by population.

Today St Kilda Road has been absorbed by the metropolis and the road survives as one of the city's major arteries, flanked by a mix of office, residential and mixed use towers.

Today, Amol is a thriving modern metropolis.

Today, this is the most important metropolis in Peru and the largest in the Andean region.

Today different parts of the metropolis have different aspects and slightly different cultures.

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

Today, the term " utility knife " also includes small folding or retractable-blade knives suited for use in the modern workplace or in the construction industry.

Today, direct engagements between aircraft are rare-the most modern fighter-interceptors carry much more extensive bombing payloads, and are used to bomb precision land targets, rather than to fight other aircraft.

Today they are far more complex and in many modern shows the clowning is a thread that links the whole show together.

Today, influx of Standard Swedish and Standard Danish vocabulary has generally meant that Scanian and Bornholmian are closer to the modern national standards of their respective host nations than to each other.

Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.

Today, the modern Latin poets who use the dactylic hexameter are generally as faithful to Virgil as Rome's Silver Age poets.

Today, all modern voucher programs prohibit racial discrimination.

Today, only two European regions continue to associate with the Franks: the French province of Île-de-France, originally the Western Franks ' seat of power ; and the Ripuarian Frankish dynasty's adopted homeland, modern Franconia.

Today, Mercedes-Benz vans are common in modern fleets.

Today, the Czechoslovak Hussite Church claims to be the modern successor of the Hussite tradition.

Today the islands are split more or less equally between the modern unitary authorities of Argyll and Bute and North Ayrshire with only Ailsa Craig and Lady Isle in South Ayrshire falling outwith these two council areas.

" Today, Astronomiae Pars Optica is generally recognized as the foundation of modern optics ( though the law of refraction is conspicuously absent ).

Today we would call this the disciplinary method of " natural consequences " since, like modern psychologists, Rousseau felt that children learn right and wrong through experiencing the consequences of their acts rather than through physical punishment.

Today it features one of Suffolk's finest modern rood screens, designed by Father Ernest Geldart and decorated by Patrick Osborne, and Enid Chadwick, and a rare Sacred Heart altar upon a Stuart Holy Table.

Today, mutualism's stress on worker association is similar to the more developed modern theory of participatory economics, although participatory economists do not believe in markets.

Today, the rise of cheap mass production means that this is no longer true, and, though a few expert locksmiths are also engineers and capable of sophisticated repairs and renovation work, the vast majority of locks are repaired by swapping of parts or like-for-like replacement, or upgraded to modern mass-production items.

Today, there are few modern longbowmen capable of using bows accurately.

Today, people of Mongol origin live in modern state of Mongolia, China ( mainly Inner Mongolia ), Russia, and a few other Central Asian countries.

Today, most modern factory-made machetes are of very simple construction, consisting of a blade and full-length tang punched from a single piece of flat steel plate of uniform thickness ( and thus lack a primary grind ), and a simple grip of two plates of wood or plastic bolted or riveted together around the tang.

Today a modern reconstruction of Michelangelo's house can be seen on the Janiculum hill.

Today around six of the original 348 Olney Hymns regularly feature in modern church worship, the most famous of which is " Amazing Grace ".

Today a small number of Romaniotes live in Greece, out of the approximately 4, 500 to 6, 000 Jews living in Greece today, both from the Romaniotes and the Sephardi subgroups ; mainly in Thessaloniki, Ioannina and Athens.

Today it is one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Ohio, with an enrollment of over 19, 000 on the Athens campus and over 28, 000 for all campuses.

Today, the city has become a suburb of Athens, to which it is linked by the freeway, the Athens metropolitan freeway ( Attiki Odos ), and Athens metro ( transit ).

Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: Leo Strauss's " Muslim " Understanding of Greek Philosophy, Poetics Today 19. 2 ( Summer 1998 ): 235 – 59.

Today Middlesex University runs Work Based Learning Centres in Athens, Ireland, Hong Kong and Malaysia and has received Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its role in integrating formal education and employment.

Today, much of Attica is occupied by urban Athens.

Today much of the river flows adjacent to the freeway linking Athens and Thessaloniki, and east of mountains of Parnitha and Aegaleo.

Today, Agia Paraskevi, like the majority of Athens ' suburbs, is densely populated.

They include the Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Georgia, the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, the Topeka Capital-Journal in Topeka, Kansas, the Amarillo Globe-News in Amarillo, Texas, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in Lubbock, Texas, the Athens Banner-Herald in Athens, Georgia, the Savannah Morning News in Savannah, Georgia, the noted local journalism experiment Bluffton Today in Bluffton, South Carolina and The People-Sentinel in Barnwell, South Carolina.

The show was promoted heavily during NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and garnered above average ratings for the network, but the show received a negative response from TV critics, who considered it to be little more than a gimmick and a shill for other NBC and DreamWorks properties ( two early episodes extensively featured The Today Shows Matt Lauer and another featured Donkey-voiced by Eddie Murphy-from the DreamWorks movie Shrek and Shrek 2 ).

Today, supreme authority is vested in the synod of all the diocesan bishops, who all have metropolitical status ( the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece ) under the presidency of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.

Maria Menounos ( Greek: Μαρία Μενούνου ) ( born June 8, 1978 ) is an American actress, journalist, television presenter and occasional professional wrestler known in The United States for her appearances as a correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.

Today the house in which Bachauer lived in the Athens suburb of Halandri still stands ; neighbours with fond memories of the pianist take care of the grounds.

Today its modern name is Kolonos and it is a densely populated working-class district of the Municipality of Athens.

Today, it has two campuses both located in Athens, Greece.

As pro tennis's house rapper, he's performed on national television numerous times including NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, ESPN at Wimbledon, USA Network, CBS's SuperSet Series Special, and The Tennis Channel.

Outside of Greece, Kalomira has appeared on NBC ’ s " Today Show " and " Access Hollywood " during the events of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, UPN's Greek Parade where she sang live and was interviewed, Fox News, was in the " Washington Post ", " Newsday " and " New York Times " and most currently featured on Oprah for her Eurovision Performance, along with a number of other shows and websites.

Today, it is a rapidly developing city of the northern mesogea and the eastern gate to the Athens basin.

Today, the building accommodates an exhibition space and the ground floor is tenanted by The Bank public house which takes its name from the Bank of Athens which leased the property in 1921, while the library remains upstairs with its entrance on Charlotte Street.

Angelos Vlachos ( Άγγελος Βλάχος ), a member of the Academy of Athens and a diplomat, in his " Remarks on Thoucydides " ( in Greek: Παρατηρήσεις στο Θουκυδίδη, 1992, Volume I, pages 177-178 ) acknowledges and supports Gomme's opinion: " Today, according to Gomme, it is generally acceptable that it was typhus " (" Σήμερα, όπως γράφει ο Gomme, έχει γίνει από όλους παραδεκτό ότι ήταν τύφος ").

Today a row of brick houses known as the Brick Row Historic District which was built in 1850 for the workers of the failed railroad stand in Athens as the only remaining structure related to the " White Elephant " Railroad project.