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Respected in the realms of both academia and popular culture, Segal was a man who worked both inside and outside of the proverbial ivory tower. Having produced several acclaimed scholarly works on Greek and Roman literature over the course of his academic career, Segal also wrote bestselling novels and screenplays for popular films, including the script for the 1968 animated Beatles feature “Yellow Submarine...
...been slow at times to preserve its own architectural wonders. As recently as 2003, the demolition of the historic (circa 1948) Biltmore Hotel was easily green-lit. The Oasis Hotel, a masterpiece built in 1925 by Lloyd Wright (Frank's son), is now simply an obscure, nonfunctioning Art Deco tower left standing in the city's downtown. More than half a dozen other historic Palm Springs inns have also been razed in recent years...
...skyscraper was planned, the tiny emirate's go-go boom has stalled, and its real estate bubble popped. But there's another way to look at the Burj Khalifa--which you can do on a clear day from 60 miles (100 km) away. The building supplanted an unlovely tower in Taipei as the world's tallest. Its closest competitors are also in Asia, in such cities as Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Guangzhou. On the list of the 10 tallest buildings, only Chicago's venerable Willis (formerly Sears) tower represents the older, developed economies, though One World Trade...
...Making of a (White) MegachurchWillow Creek Community Church's main complex, in South Barrington, does not tower so much as sprawl: eight low-slung buildings, landscaped on a swampy and thus underdeveloped grassland amid Chicago's bustling, affluent northwest suburbs. As the church has grown - especially with the 2004 completion of a new sanctuary building with an escalator and interior waterfall - it has become more self-consciously handsome. But like Hybels himself, it abandons pious overstatement for corporate efficiency: church as conceived by Jack Welch. (Read "Church Group Attacks Christmas Commercialism...