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ALBANY, N.Y.—Without Magic, Bird wouldn’t be Bird. Without Woody, Bo wouldn’t be Bo. Without the Yankees, the Sox wouldn?...
There is little precedent for Biewener’s research. “We appreciate the aesthetic movement of a bird that’s flying, it’s athletic and beautiful,” Biewener says. But before him, few had thought about the biology, mechanics and engineering behind the fluid movement and none had done the extensive research Biewener has crossing these fields’ boundaries. “It is a challenge of understanding biological aspects of life as it exists,” says Biewener...
...Bird flu and SARS may make the headlines, but if you're really worried about getting an animal disease, you need look no farther than the fluff ball curled up on your pillow. Cats, dogs, hamsters and snakes are breeding grounds for all sorts of microbes. Of the 1,400 or so recognized human pathogens, 61% are classified as zoonotic, or naturally communicable between animals and us. Some examples...
...Calatrava has brought to the world of travel an incomparable high-tech lyricism. His structures speak plainly of engineering, of struts and cables, white concrete pylons and keen-edged glass louvers. But at the same time they suggest unmistakably the pliant forms of nature--an eye, a torso, a bird in flight--that inspire...
...other kinds of public building as well, including the tidal wave of his new opera house in Tenerife, Spain, and his addition to Wisconsin's Milwaukee Museum of Art, a structure that culminates in the rising arc of a sunscreen that opens and closes like the wings of a bird. But recently he unveiled another train station that is sure to become one of his best-remembered structures, not only for its airborne exuberance but also for the location where it brings that feeling to bear--at ground zero in New York City. Calatrava was chosen last year to design...