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...late 1990s, Tim Smit--an archaeologist turned pop-music producer--decided to build a new Eden. The Dutch-born Englishman envisioned a grand environmental-education park in the depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall--with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" he says. "'Also...
...Eden Project is simultaneously futuristic and organic, and it's not hard to see why Brits voted it their favorite new building of the past 20 years. Similar efforts in the U.S., however, have been received less rapturously. Attempts to build an American version of Eden called Earthpark stalled for years as Midwestern cities like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, doubting the project's profitability, said no. (Pella, a tiny town near Iowa City, finally said yes to Earthpark, scheduled to open...
...disappointed with the way we started up.”The Crimson also had nine turnovers in the first half, seven of which came in the first five minutes. This, along with good off-the-ball movement on offense, allowed Holy Cross to build at 27-12 lead with 7:48 left in the first half.Harvard was able to stem the Crusader onslaught by switching between zone and man-to-man defenses, which knocked Holy Cross off-balance and out of its offensive groove.“We needed to try to change the rhythm of the game...
...have licensed franchises in Asia. Others, like Boateng and Gieves & Hawkes, also sell ready-to-wear and made-to-measure clothes. The latter, unlike bespoke, are altered from block patterns rather than being custom-made - bespoke suits are cut by hand from scratch to meet the buyer's exact build, gleaned from 35 different measurements and requiring at least three fittings, and then stitched almost entirely by hand...
...Bangladesh, whose location and geography makes it not only particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change but also extremely hard to protect. Most of Bangladesh sits on the giant alluvial delta created by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, whose courses are constantly shifting, making it difficult to build up river banks to protect farmland. A World Bank project, backed by France, Japan and the U.S., would construct 8,000 km of dikes to control the rivers, but the $10 billion proposal has run into opposition from farmers whose land it would take. Massive Dutch-style dikes to hold back...