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...iron matter? Partly for symbolic reasons: it was the common material of industry, old as the smith-god Hephaistos but new as the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge -- "ignoble," vernacular material that, set up beside the "noble" marble and bronze of traditional sculpture, could not but detonate new trains of imagery...
...notices. Built in the 1890s on a fashionable corner in Greenwich Village, it was designed for a long-forgotten retailer who dreamed of giving Macy's a run for its money. Passersby would probably not be surprised if the structure disappeared overnight to be replaced with a modern apartment tower. They would never guess that this venerable edifice is the most energy-efficient building in Manhattan...
...speculate that the bombing may represent the prototype for a new kind of terrorism, and not only because it was the first major attack on American soil. Before this incident, there was little evidence that terrorists had the infrastructure in the U.S. to organize and plan operations. "What the tower bombing suggests is that under our noses they've been building up," says Bruce Hoffman of the Rand Corp. "It may not be a typical Islamic terrorist organization that comes to mind -- not full- time terrorists that live life underground plotting operations. These could be part-time terrorists that...
...Twisted, twin-strand, DNA-like designs border the ceiling of the auditorium and circle the lab's ubiquitous CSH insignia. A delicate steel model of the molecule sits in the auditorium lobby, and a DNA rendering hangs from the wall behind Watson's desk. The laboratory's lofty bell tower is not exempt. Each of its four sides is labeled with a letter representing one of the four nucleotides that constitute DNA's code letters: A, T, C and G. And visible through arches in each of the tower sides is a central staircase -- spiral, of course. As an added...
Residents also praise the house's exterior architecture. Liem calls it "the flagship of Harvard on the banks of the river," while Cotter says residents pride in their courtyard that overlooks the Charles and their crimson tower--which is often photographed for postcards and campus publications...