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...Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and in a one-woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes. "We had to come to grips with the logistics of a paramilitary operation," she explains. "Helicopters are large, dangerous objects...
FLORENCE, Italy—Nestled atop a grassy hill just outside Florence lies Harvard’s least-trod campus. If power at the University is measured in steps from the John Harvard statue, the Villa i Tatti would regrettably fall off the radar screen...
...renewed aggressive effort of the Crimson’s blue-liners. By pinching defensemen far into the zone, Harvard was able to sustain strong pressure in the Yale end. Defensemen Smith and Welch both had key goals on plays where they attacked the net rather than staying atop the point to backstop the offense...
...umbrella group, declared it "uninspiring" and called for a new competition. Some family groups have actually been pressing for a more anguished memorial that would incorporate twisted remnants of the towers that are currently in storage. They look to places like the U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, built atop the scarred hulk of the sunken warship. When he first conceived his master plan for the Trade Center site, the architect Daniel Libeskind intended to preserve the concrete containing walls, 70 ft. deep, that once held the underground foundations of the Twin Towers. Battered, fire-blasted but still standing, they...
...third, Union went up a man when senior forward Tim Pettit was whistled off for holding. With the power play winding down, Olivier Bouchard’s shot at 4:37 from atop the crease went by Grumet-Morris to give Union a 2-0 lead, but it also set the stage for the Crimson’s furious comeback...