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...centerpiece of this monument to imperial grandeur was Barlow's famous spider-like "train shed" - at 243 feet, still the biggest single span of cast ironwork in the world. Beneath it lies the concourse, supported by nearly 1,000 cast-iron pillars in a vast basement. Once used as a warehouse for Northern bitters to quench Victorian London's insatiable thirst for beer - each pillar is said to stand two ale barrels apart - this muscular 19th century vision will be complimented with a 21st century sleekness: shops, bars, restaurants, a farmers' market and the longest champagne bar in Europe...
...average, over double the number of toy recall searches. Certainly protecting our children from the dangers of lead-based paint is more important - or, at the very least, equally as important as tainted pet food - so why the difference in searches? Perhaps media coverage of the two recalls will shed some light on the difference in attention...
...parents and students overwhelmed by the similarly slick brochures and similarly staggering price tags put out by competing colleges. But Sarah Lawrence is hoping it will continue to attract applicants who have done their homework and figured out that the rankings come from an arbitrary formula that doesn't shed much light on how well a school educates its students...
...shake hands with fans. "We appreciate you sticking up for the U.S. We think you're right," one woman told Thompson. At the soapbox Thompson had voiced his impatience with the U.S. feeling that it has to apologize for every move in the world it makes. "This nation has shed more blood bringing peace to others," Thompson said. "I'm tired of apologizing for being the United State of America...
...simply be history. It's true that two shuttles have been lost to disaster in the 26 years of the program, but 117 have made it down just fine. And the large majority of those ships came home with scarred, pitted and missing tiles. Indeed, the early shuttles often shed tiles like dead leaves and landed safely all the same. Endeavour will almost surely do so too. But the anxiety this mission is causing is one more reason that so many NASA employees and astronaut families are simply marking time until shuttles' scheduled retirement in 2010, when the snakebit ships...