Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Juilliard building is a triumph of architecture, technology and sheer cash. Designed by Architect Pietro Belluschi and put up at a cost of $30 million, the building encompasses 8,000,000 cubic feet spread over nine floors. It houses 15 gigantic rehearsal rooms, three organ studios, 84 practice rooms, 30 private studios, two recital halls (including Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's acoustically superb home for chamber music) and limitless vistas of plush, carpeted corridors and lobbies. There is also the thousand-seat Juilliard Theater. Its pop-up ceiling can be raised or lowered (up for big orchestras, down...
Moreover, to build roads, camps or airstrips, a gravel foundation must be laid over the tundra. But scooping thousands of cubic yards of gravel out of the nearby hills will cause devastating new erosion. An alternate solution-getting the gravel from river bottoms -poses yet another problem. The future of migratory fish like salmon, which lay their eggs in stream bottoms, will be endangered. In short, the fabulous oil strike might turn the tundra into a nightmarish wasteland...
These properties could make possible extraordinarily small, efficient equipment. "We can imagine a data-storage file," says Morton, "holding 15 million coded bits of information in one or two cubic inches and run by forty-thousandths of a watt of power." The same job now would require a closet full of equipment and hundreds of watts...
After the spectrograms were developed, Schorn saw what he had been looking for. "There was the water-pow!" he says. The dark absorption lines, which stood out "as bold as fence posts," revealed that all the water vapor in the Martian atmosphere equals about a cubic mile of water, less than in a large lake on earth. Spread over the planet's surface, it would be only a thousandth of an inch deep. There was about twice as much water vapor in the Northern Hemisphere (where it is now late summer) than in the southern half (where...
...Arab family. "Whoever heard of private families owning water sources," says Afik more in amusement than anger. "At first the Arabs didn't want to sell us the water, but we negotiated." It was not a particularly good bargain for Kallia: the settlement pays the Arabs 80 per cubic meter, roughly four times the area's going rate. But part of the nahalniks' difficult job is to show the local Arabs that living with Israelis can be good for everyone...