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...skyscraper is to die for. Still a year from completion, the upper floors are a mess of flapping safety nets and tangled steel wires, but there are glimpses of what will be a spectacular, 360-degree panorama. The outlook to the west is particularly stunning?a sweep down the wide swath of Chang'an Avenue, past the Forbidden City over roofs and parks all the way out to the hazy crests of the Western Hills. It's the best view in China's booming capital, and you'd expect one of the country's corporate titans to be taking...
...dividing North America and Asia had roiled those waters; swells had blown the Brunswick-the now-listing ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts-against one of the ice floes. During the summer, these chunks of ice drift northward from the Pacific to the Arctic through this fifty-mile-wide passage between Siberia's eastern and Alaska's western shores...
...long and 110 ft. wide, the locks were built to handle the largest ships then planned. Even though many modern ships are too big (the Titanic would have fit; today's Queen Mary 2 doesn't), the canal handled more than 14,000 transits in 2005, accounting for about 5% of world trade. How a lock works...
...Marines murder unarmed Iraqi civilians and then cover up the slayings? While our story prompted wide agreement that anyone found guilty should be disciplined, readers also blamed the enemy's tactics and the Administration's policies for increasing the duress under which U.S. troops are serving...
...small-group approach is similar to one taken last year. The 2004-2005 committee—which included 13 professors, 2 deans, 2 students, and a number of administrative staffers—debated a wide range of issues surrounding general education, but the large group proved unable to write a satisfactory report. Eventually, five professors from the group, who became known as the "Gang of Five," spent last summer writing up a report that was finally deemed ready for presentation to the Faculty in the fall...