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...angled to obstruct southern light while admitting gentler northern light, then deliver it to the third-floor galleries through translucent fabric screens. From outside, it also tops off the building's silhouette with a final flourish: a thin wafer of aluminum afloat on slender steel trusses. Piano likes to call it the "flying carpet...
...supposed to be probing financial firms to see if they hold adequate capital for the loans they make. And the Federal Reserve does publish data about the banks and their capital four times a year. But unless you are a bank examiner or some other industry insider, those so-called call reports are nearly impossible to read and understand...
...wired for optical input, for visualization. The optic nerve bundle is huge. Even with no input, or maybe especially with no input, the brain keeps creating images. I'm a very visual person, I just can?t see." "Sighted photographers always talk about the difficulty of what they call 'seeing,'" Eckert adds. "I tell them 'If you can't see, it's because your vision is getting...
...more than a lazy reaction to a 15-minute walk. The recent budget cuts only heighten existing shortcomings, so that the number of holes in services available for Quad students has now approached the point of absurdity. Students may soon find themselves without cell-phone reception, unable to call the escort service that would have replaced the shuttle that isn’t there, to take them to a library that isn’t available nearby...
...unusual appearance. Benedict XVI arrived in the back of the papal plane just after it took off for the return trip to Italy. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi introduced him with a smile, calling this "the longest, most complicated and maybe most tiring" of the Pontiff's 12 foreign voyages. Benedict, his face toasty bronze from a week of public appearances under consistently sunny skies, repeated his call to seek signs of hope in an otherwise bleak Middle East landscape. Having just come from deep prayer at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus' death...