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...second thoughts about jumping into the water every day." Other residents are also taking a newly wary whiff of the centuries-old klong network, which had inspired 17th century European missionaries to dub Bangkok the "Venice of the East." The city's 10 million residents produce 2.4 million cubic meters of wastewater per day but just 500,000 cubic meters are subsequently treated. The rest is simply poured into the klongs. As only 2% of homes in Bangkok are connected to proper sanitation systems, most of the effluent is raw sewage. Tossed into the brew are toxic chemicals, restaurant discharges...
According to its website, the Central North Island wood supply region spans about nine million acres, with annual harvesting expected to reach 11 million cubic meters of logs this year...
...admit that the 5,000-cubic-inch backpack might be overkill for the ID card and notebook I carry to class. But when 10 Harvard students are hiking through the New England backcountry, we need every bit of that space. So although I cannot take my pack to class unless I plan to camp out in the Science Center, there are other lessons that I—along with 350 other FOP leaders and first-years—did take back from the woods when we returned, smelly and rumpled, to fair Harvard...
Mather HoCo is betting that 10,800 cubic feet worth of foam, blacklights and barbecue grills will combine to produce what Corker describes as Mather’s “second coming—a reawakening, if you will.” HoCo Secretary Darren S. Morris ’05 enthuses, “This event is totally unprecedented in what it will do for campus social life.” Publicity Chair Aditi A. Prabhu ’04 adds, “They are also hoping to create a tradition for people to rally around...
...having an inside-out plan, with interpenetrations of exterior and interior through both the design and the use of glass—both clear, as in the numerous large windows, and distorted, as in the glass blocks of the stairwell. At the center of the building is a cubic volume from which the curved studios spaces are hung on a diagonal axis. There is extensive cantilevering and a reliance on reinforced concrete to create large areas of open space. Unlike traditional structures, which rely on load-bearing walls, the Carpenter Center relies on a grid of load-bearing columns...