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...community meetings, Harvard has introduced tentative plans for new, green academic quads and for gaining space by replacing an above-ground parking lot and storage facility for test animals with underground facilities—plans that have many approvals to go before they can get underway...
Sweating up the back pockets of traveling salesmen during the 1930s, the so-called Tijuana Bibles were the first truly "underground" comix. Pure pornography, these crudely printed eight-page pamphlets put popular comicstrip characters in more "adult" situations, expounding on the likes of Dagwood's obvious oral fixation. Later the comix artists of the 1960s used identical mixes of sex, racial stereotypes and pop culture for artistic and political subversion. But now, having inseminated the medium, porn comix seem spent. With dullness and utilitarianism, they whore themselves out to men who no longer find the Batman and Robin relationship satisfying...
...building plan by architect Henry N. Cobb proposes two four-story buildings of rounded glass and terra cotta facing each other across Cambridge Street. The latest point of contention is an underground tunnel beneath the street that would link the buildings...
...Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed the back of the vast, underground trial chamber. Though prosecutors won more than 300 convictions by 1987, both Falcone and Borsellino eventually paid the ultimate price for their Maxi-Trial assault. Now, as Italy marks 10 years since the Mafia's brazen murders of Falcone (blown up on May 23, 1992 in his car along with...
...would all be wasteland. With it, Nizwa is a lush oasis of date palms about 165 km from Muscat. Its recently restored 17th century fort is the largest structure from that era on the Arabian peninsula. Check out the deceptive architecture featuring false passageways, as well as the underground stream that provided a steady source of water in case of siege...