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...Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, told members of the Harvard-Allston Task Force last night. Preliminary sketches of the 500,000 square foot science complex that will set the tone for the rest of Allston depict modern glass buildings connected by aerial walkways. Pathways crossing grassy knolls, indoor gardens, and spacious atriums complemented the drawings of the outdoor facades. “I am not a traditionalist, I can tell you that right away,” said Stefan Behnisch, the University’s architect for the first new Allston buildings...
...residents of the Bay Area will have a much better sense of the precise path the earthquake took. Working with old photographs, Prentice has found a number of the missing signs of 1906--abrupt jogs in fences that once straddled the rupture zone, for example--and located them on aerial photos. Among the communities bisected by the fault break is San Bruno, a city of 40,000 that borders San Francisco international airport...
...here," he said, pointing to a map of Liberia. "This is all ours -- except for this little piece called Monrovia, and we are going to keep on fighting as long as one foreign ECOMOG soldier remains on our soil." The damage inflicted on Liberia by ECOMOG artillery fire and aerial bombing, which is carried out by Nigerian air force planes, he claimed, amounts to $4.5 billion. "The Liberian people are going to be bitter against their neighbors for a long time," he continued. "They are finding it hard to accept being bombed by Nigerian planes...
...With the country celebrating its first-ever gold medal in a snow event at last month's Torino Olympics?courtesy of male aerial skier Han Xiaopeng?skiing has never been so cool in China. A decade ago, there was only one sizeable ski site in the entire country?Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province?and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets...
...With the country celebrating its first-ever gold medal in a snow event at last month's Torino Olympics-courtesy of male aerial skier Han Xiaopeng-skiing has never been so cool in China. A decade ago, there was only one sizeable ski site in the entire country-Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province-and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets...