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...container construction is getting even bigger. In the west London suburb of Uxbridge, a 120-room Travelodge hotel is being built out of 87 steel crates, stacked and snapped together Lego-like, into two nine-story towers. When construction is finished in March (the hotel opens in June), its radical construction technology will be hidden behind a more orthodox brick and concrete exterior...
...construction time could have been halved and costs chopped by as much as 40%. "The economics are compelling," says Verbus company director Paul Rollett. "This is a step change in how to do these things." Travelodge certainly thinks so - it has okayed construction of a second, 307-room container-built hotel near Heathrow Airport for later this year...
When they built the FAS IT server, they said she was unsinkable. She was the fastest anyone had ever seen, the most powerful. Her reputation preceded her, and she attracted the attention of the rich and the powerful, all of whom were eager to send e-mails and attempt to unlock the mysteries of navigating her enigmatic interface. She was a true triumph—in fact, she seemed to almost symbolize man’s capabilities, and his capacity to break free of the puny constraints of nature...
...deliver locally. "You will never see a candidate offer a five-point plan to solve the flour crisis because it's not really what the voter cares about," says a Western official, who calls politicking in Pakistan "pork-barrel politics to the nth degree." The whole system is built around largesse, favors and influence peddling, he says. Instead, politicians prefer to buy flour themselves and distribute it amongst the poor - a better way to earn personal loyalty and guarantee votes the next time around...
...quite a triumph of logistics. The organizers just hadn't reckoned with the outpouring of exuberance of overseas Americans given an opportunity to cast off the taint of the Bush years. Democrats Abroad U.K. had booked Porchester Hall, a grand Victorian edifice built for public functions, which ought to have been roomy enough. Pop star Elton John celebrated his birthday there with a few hundred of his closest friends in 1994, and the complex has regularly accommodated large-scale awards ceremonies and posh parties. The Dems had arranged volunteers to man the registration desks, and more to serve refreshments. (Even...