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...been just another typical couple of weeks for Apple. First, it opened its latest New York City store, complete with enormous glass cube and Dr. Evil-style topless elevator. Then came the announcement of a Nike product that gives iPod nanos the ability to keep track of your physical training. After that, a new U2-autographed red and black iPod arrived, and a rebate for students of up to $179 on an iPod if they buy a computer, too. To top it all off, the new 13-inch MacBooks started shipping...
...five-year tenure, University President Lawrence H. Summers painted Allston’s future in broad brush strokes: a vision of green pastures and bustling city streets surrounding a hub devoted to interdisciplinary science research.Within the next 10 years—long after Summers is gone—a glass science complex will stand in what is now a parking lot and a new museum for contemporary and modern art will move into the offices of Bank of America.The School of Public Health and the School of Education—both of which have complained for years about a lack...
...Southern Hemisphere's largest such pipeline, will supply power stations with about 110 million liters of recycled water a day from 2008-promise huge water savings. But while spraying such water on cotton crops or golf courses has widespread support, the notion of pouring it into a glass still makes many squirm...
Thousands of soccer fans arriving this month for World Cup matches in Berlin may find the newly opened Central Station as thrilling as any penalty shoot-out. The $905 million depot consists of a soaring, 321-m-long, 9,000-glass-pane hall covering tracks[an error occurred while processing this directive] running east to west, a 46-m-high barrel-vaulted steel-and-glass hall and two rectangular office buildings running parallel to the underground north-south lines, plus a shopping galleria. It's on the site of the city's Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, inaugurated in 1871, the year...
...values they believe in are Godless: biology and chemistry and physics. On the facts and formulas of these their false voices firmly rest, ringing out into the classroom. They say that all comes out of merciless blind atoms, which cause the cold weight of iron, the transparency of glass, the stillness of clay, the agitation of flesh. Electrons pour through copper threads and computer gates and the air itself when stirred to lightning by the interaction of water droplets. Only what we can measure and deduce from measurement is true. The rest is the passing dream that we call...