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Disturbance to the garden will extend far beyond the footprint of the building as shown on the elegant concept drawings. Furthermore, underground buildings are notoriously high maintenance. We have only to observe the "state-of-the-art" Sackler Museum here in Washington, whose handsome Enid Haupt garden is constantly being dug up to repair leaks to the roof. There are other numerous examples of failed underground buildings...
...Costner tends to wrest control over films away from his directors. How legitimate is the concept of artistic vision in filmmaking today...
...concept of family become so malleable that it should be up to judges to decide who can visit our children? That's what the Supreme Court began deciding Wednesday during opening arguments in a battle for children's visitation rights that pits the paternal grandparents of two little girls against their mother and stepfather. The case hinges on the constitutionality of a Washington State law allowing any adult to petition family courts for visitation rights. Unlike most states, which can order parents to allow such visits only in cases where the parents are unfit or abusive, in Washington...
Come to think of it, the very concept of recess is antithetical to Harvard. Recess, by definition, is unstructured and freewheeling. Harvard life, by contrast, is one scheduled meeting after another. We meet for class, meet for clubs, meet for lunch, meet to practice and meet to talk about our meetings. Bring a PalmPilot to the playground and all the other kids will turn to you to throw their foam balls...
...Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long shown the ability to memorize a number sequence by, say, counting to five, but researchers hadn't previously confirmed that the animals actually understood the concept of counting or were simply parroting their trainers. But since it presents the numbers at random, the Kyoto study offers some pretty conclusive proof that animals can actually grasp the building blocks of mathematics...