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...street to offer free performances for whoever walks by - like a JumboTron but with real people dancing inside it. "We were trying to strike a balance," says Diller, "between the monumental and the dematerialized." Then they sliced the new space with a multistory diagonal plane. It creates a giant triangular canopy that launches itself toward Broadway like a tsunami. "At Lincoln Center," Diller says, "small gestures don't work...
...realize was that the blaze he and his wife Mary decided to battle was like nothing seen in in the area in living memory. "It was like a massive fireball," says Robbins, who was at her home in Melbourne during the fire. "People have explained it leapt across in giant bounds like huge balls of fires, and all the sprinklers in the world would not have been enough to stop it." Martin and his wife died. "The CFA (Country Fire Authority) should have told them this fireball was coming and to get out," Robbins says. "If I had known...
...China's state-owned aluminum company Chinalco announced it would inject $19.5 billion in cash into Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. More than $12 billion of that will give the Chinese company, which already owns 9% of Rio, a share of some of the mining firm's most valuable mines. The remainder of the cash injection will go into bonds that can eventually be converted into an equity stake, which would double Chinalco's overall ownership position in Rio. The $19.5 billion deal amounts to the largest foreign investment any company in China has ever made. Two days...
...Metals analysts in London say rival giant BHP Billiton, which dropped a takeover bid for Rio last year as metals prices collapsed, is now poking around to see if other Rio assets may be for sale. In effect, the Chinalco deal has placed a value on some of the company's most attractive mines, including a Chilean copper mine that BHP already owns a piece...
...from warm weather earlier in the week, followed by freezing temperatures the night before the contests, making the snow hard and icy leading into the competitions. The men’s alpine squad led the way, with a great individual performance by junior alpine captain Chris Kinner in the Giant Slalom event and a ninth-place team effort in the Giant Slalom race. Kinner placed 17th in the Friday contest, which was his best showing as a collegiate skier. He had started the day in 43rd place, moved up to a tie for 28th place after the first...