Word: architects
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...trim and with a full head of steel gray hair, Rubin looks young to be the chief architect of the country's fiscal policy...
Thanks largely to Chermayeff's passion and innovative eye, big-city aquariums are more popular than ever. His sparkling creations in Boston; Baltimore, Md.; Osaka; and Chattanooga, Tenn., have revitalized stagnant waterfronts and are pulling in huge crowds. The Genoa Aquarium, created with architect Renzo Piano, is Italy's fourth most popular tourist attraction and is drawing more visitors each year than the Uffizi...
First degree, third degree. Ceremonial apron and secret handshake; the Square and the Compass; the letter G for the Grand Architect himself. There was a time when America was dying to know and no one was telling. Freemasonry, which claims to be the world's oldest fraternal society, has been called the civil religion of the American Revolution. As recently as 1959, its U.S. branch constituted an earnest and convivial army of 4.1 million. Yet today those ranks are decimated. True, the group is still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million...
With his death, many people throughout the world may think that Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodian genocide [WORLD, April 27], has escaped justice, but has he? The blood of those who died will stand as witness against him. He may have escaped man's justice, but a greater judgment awaits him. ALEX JOHNSON Grangemouth, Scotland...
Then there's the one about Denver architect William Elkjer, 57, who always wanted to launch himself on an adventure he would remember forever. In April, he and his wife Candy took an eight-day, professionally led dogsled trip across 180 miles of Alaska. Elkjer cashed in all of his Diners Club points--500,000 of them--to take the plunge. "I had been saving these points for years for something special," Elkjer says. "This was really an event of a lifetime...