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Many sections of the tunnel have chips in the concrete which are either left there, paved over or reinforced with steel...
This summer, workers jackhammered through a large section of the roof of the tunnel under Memorial Drive and fixed up the walls with steel reinforcing. They also poured new concrete for the roof, Hawkes says...
Their other main function is to check the expansion joints. Because the temperature in the pipes can vary between 70 and 400 degrees when the steam is turned on and off, the steel is constantly expanding and contracting...
Such outsider viewpoints -- from new Americans and even Native Americans -- can influence others to see the world in a different light. To dramatize how the forces that ravaged the buffalo still exist, Native American sculptor Bob Haozous constructed 100 steel buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black...
HEADQUARTERED IN A SPRAWLING, 1950s-era complex just outside Beijing, the Shougang steel company is a symbol of China's economic prowess -- and its problems. Earlier this year, when credit was easy and the economy was steaming ahead at a 17% annual clip, the state-owned conglomerate and its 270,000 employees could hardly keep pace with consumer demand. Profits soared. Then came the credit crunch orchestrated by economic czar Zhu Rongji, and Shougang felt the sting at once. Customers slashed their orders, and soon Shougang could not pay its bills. The company last month was forced to take...