Word: cattail
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...Sugar did block the flow and suck the water out of the Everglades, converting its saw grass marshes into cattail clumps and inspiring one of the most contentious pollution lawsuits in U.S. history. But ever since the litigation was settled in the mid-1990s, Big Sugar has done an impressive job of cleaning up its act, and development has become a much greater threat to the health of the Everglades. Still, U.S. Sugar executives have often warned that they might build condos someday, and environmentalists have dreamed of locking up their land...
...else. Here's their Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England, a billowing form covered with silvery disks. Here's their upcoming museum for Maserati, the Italian car manufacturer, with its lines that any car designer would call aerodynamic. Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model of the bunch, a proposal for a prefabricated house that would rise out of the ground on a long neck, continue for a distance underground and send up a kind of tail at its rear. If it calls...