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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...also fretted over the design, which called for a large circular hole to be cut through the top of the building to relieve the force of strong winds. The feature would too much resemble the rising sun of the Japanese flag, they argued. Architect David Malott concocted a trapezoidal cutout instead, giving the building a striking resemblance to a bottle opener. But "it's dramatic in its own way," he says. And how. Today, that crowning trapezoid is home to (what else?) the world's tallest observation deck. You can drop to a crawl on a glass floor that reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shanghai High Life | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...After General Gration told the Washington Post that "cookies" and "gold stars" might be useful in forcing Khartoum to cooperate, a few dozen activists from the group Students Against Genocide sarcastically delivered a large cardboard cutout gold star and smiley face to the front of the Sudan embassy in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darfur Activists Frustrated with Obama's Sudan Policy | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Garden State Inaugural Gala”). Obama went in and out of several balls, but he stayed at ours the whole time. I tried to leave with him at the end, but to my dismay, New Jersey had other plans for the life-size cardboard cutout...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Window 21 to the World | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved him. Now he's the face of fantasy fishing: Thompson says he just saw a cardboard cutout of himself at a boat show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Make $1 Million Fishing Online? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...wearing a campaign button? “What up, bro. I cannot lie. I have campaign fever, and the only cure is more Hillary.” Her? I would have pegged you as a Republican for sure. “Well, I did have a cardboard cutout of Clarence Thomas in my childhood bedroom. My aunt even got me a subscription to The National Review for Kids. But ever since I heard Hillary speak about her health-care plan, I’ve been hooked.” I see. You’re a policy wonk...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Our Idea of Activism | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

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