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...heavyweight and novice races against Northeastern for the Rowlands Cup, originally scheduled for Saturday, have been re-scheduled for May 10 because of unrowable conditions on the Charles River. The river basin by the Harvard bridge was still frozen over when officials had to decide whether or not to proceed with the races this weekend...
Eight hundred miles north of Montana, in upper Saskatchewan, sprawls a land of vast evergreen forests laced with lakes and streams, windblown sand ridges--and the world's richest deposits of uranium. From this Canadian wilderness, centered on the Athabasca Basin, fully a quarter of the world's annual supply of uranium is unearthed, most of it from a single mine called McArthur River. In a world increasingly concerned about the flow and price of oil from the Middle East, demand for the mine's controversial product is quietly rising...
...emissions and the threat of subsequent environmental disasters. The Earth is extremely delicate and relatively small changes can throw off its equilibrium. As a human race we cannot wait to discover the exact consequences of our actions. For example, in 1998, sudden flooding in China’s Yangtze basin due to deforestation caused over $20 billion worth of damage. Nobody could have been sure that this flooding would have occured until it actually...
When Daniel Libeskind was invited last summer to submit ideas for rebuilding the area around the World Trade Center, he flew from his home in Berlin to visit the site. He descended into "the bathtub," the vast concrete basin in which the foundations of both towers once rested. As the street-level sounds of the city fell away, the primeval depths of Manhattan filled his view. "At that bedrock level you can see the indelible traces of the towers," says Libeskind. "These were walls that had withstood the trauma of the attack. I thought to myself, There is something very...
What did it say? Something about how to reconcile life and death. Libeskind's design for the site, unveiled along with eight other proposals at a press conference in New York City in December, preserves the entire 70-ft.-deep basin as a kind of primordial imprint of the towers. Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails. Libeskind's plan would surround that pit with a force field of angular towers at street level. The workaday world could carry on its business without trampling...