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...third reason to institute my proposed initiative is that by inviting homeless people into Loker Commons--and not just bringing Loker food to them--we can introduce a measure of reality into this otherwise unreal world of chrome, frappes and turnip chips. Harvard students do not need a student center, but as long as we have one, every student shoulders a moral responsibility to make sure it looks as little like a set for "Friends" as humanly possible...
...activities vehicle, with a vip price tag in the mid-$30,000 range. (Will it have the effortless, raunchy, bad-attitude rumble of this writer's black-with-red pinstripes 1985 Ford F-250 plow truck, noble on its big wheels, with two gas tanks, chrome air horns, jaunty rust spots and revolving yellow cab light...
...changing its identity. Designer Doug Gaffka and his team, inspired by the familiar Taurus oval grille, took an elliptical route. Viewed from the side, the new Taurus has an elongated oval shape, as do its headlights, rear window, door handles, control panel, airbag pad and more. It has no chrome trim, no visible seams, a curving, dropped rear deck and a steep, sloping windshield. "We kept trying to make it sleek, sleek and sleeker," says Gaffka. "We wanted to suck the body molding right down over the mechanics as if it were carved out of a single piece of metal...
...woman entering the Crisis Pregnancy Center, in a modern medical building in Poughkeepsie, New York, is greeted by a staff member seated behind a sliding glass window who hands her a clipboard with forms to fill out. In the bathroom, a chrome-and-glass cart holds a medicine jar full of cotton. But this is no doctor's office. The center--affiliated with the Christian Action Council's Care Net, a nonprofit organization based in Sterling, Virginia--has no staff members with medical training. Rather, any woman who drops by is offered a free over-the-counter pregnancy test...
...frenzy to modernize the capital of what Vietnam's leaders hope will be Asia's next economic ``tiger,'' Hanoi is beginning to take on the more disturbing qualities of Bangkok, Taipei or Seoul. Historic shop houses and old temples are being pulled down to make way for chrome-and-glass hotels and offices--monuments to raw capitalism. Where the leafy streets were once blessedly quiet, they now reverberate with the rumble of bulldozers and the honking of car horns. Bicycles and pedicabs, once the only traffic, struggle to keep up. As new factories and office buildings sprout across the city...