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...balance reform, development and stability." Chinese might snicker at home, but they can't show their outrage or frustration in public. So the Party gets away with it?to the chagrin of the Democracy Wall dissident. At home, he still has a memento of that wall: a single brick he saved before the last bit was torn down in 1994. "People seem indifferent to politics," he says, "but if you look deeper, what they really are is scared. Some day, people will talk back at the Party again." But not, it seems, at this congress...
Harvard itself, he said, is the main perpetrator of this crime so many students call home: The land allocated to create Mather wasn’t large enough to build an entirely low-rise building (which would have been brick) and still accommodate the designated number of students, so Carlhian had to design a high-rise. For structural and aesthetic reasons, Carlhian explained, it made no sense to design a 14-story high-rise of brick—thus the concrete-aggregate form and revolution in Harvard dormitory housing. The interiors were purposefully designed as bare concrete: ever-changing blank...
...matter. Across the country, they have suffered a number of ugly incidents due to their religion and their stance on Israel. At the University of Colorado there were reports of swastikas painted at a booth set up by a Jewish student organization. At the University of California Berkeley, a brick was thrown through a glass door at the Jewish Hillel center. Such actions are intolerable...
...folks who get their forensics strictly from the prime-time dramas, things are a lot simpler--and prettier. Watch an episode of CSI, and you would think forensic investigators move in a world of lab coats fresh from the cleaners, offices done up in glass brick and autopsy tables artfully--and pointlessly--underlit in purple. The fact is that in communities in which forensic labs compete for funds from the same pot of money out of which beat cops are paid, there's no room for such luxuries. Even gadgets like the mass spectrometers get snazzed up for TV, with...
...courtyard will be clad in red brick, while a light-colored stone will make up the tower and bridge. Where the bridge intersects the tower and the courtyard, the materials will overlap as well...