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...former industrial area of Zurich-West was deserted, the factories that once produced turbines and steamboats standing eerily silent. Then, in 2000, Schiffbau - a 19th century shipbuilding plant - was gutted to make way for a restaurant, jazz club and cluster of theaters. Today, nearly all of the area's brick-clad buildings have been repurposed as bars, shops and galleries, flanked by chic loft apartments. It's a transformation that's helping to turn Switzerland's largest city from a buttoned-up financial capital into something approaching a fashionable metropolis. In the past few years, Schiffbau has seen the addition...
...short, fishapod adds one more brick, and an especially important one, to the edifice of Darwinian evolution-and at the same time puts the so-called theory of intelligent design into even greater question than it already faces. That would be true if only because any designer who deliberately made such a queer fish would have been more of a practical joker than anything else. But it also demonstrates that while evolution has plenty of missing bits of evidence, they keep showing up all the time to strengthen it. Evolution is, as ID supporters love to say, "just" a theory...
...Vultaggio, the 6-ft. 8-in. son of an A&P produce manager, who started out hawking beer in New York City from the back of a Volkswagen bus (he proudly recalls being a victim of armed robbers and once threw a brick at a robber's getaway car), wind up building a New Age--drink business, selling bottles adorned with cherry blossoms? From death stares to drapes in three easy steps. Vultaggio and partner John Ferolito established a semisuccessful beer distributorship before trying to produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange...
...half an hour, the family huddled on the floor, until Larry's 40-km-wide eye suddenly arrived over Innisfail. It was about 7 a.m. Karl screamed frantically for his wife and was amazed when she screamed back. They ran to a neighbor's low-slung brick house to wait out the rest of the storm...
...Belvedere, on the other side of Innisfail, Bruce Crausaz was confident his squat solid-brick home would easily withstand the gale-force winds - until he saw his wall-mounted television spear towards him. The heavy set catapulted him onto the floor. Rain pelted down on him. The roof was gone. Crausaz crawled out of the kitchen and in terror grabbed a plastic bucket, which he put over his head. For the next 40 minutes he half-knelt, half-lay on the floor with the bucket on his head, tightly gripping the door. "I know it wouldn't have stopped much...