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...years, there was nothing like it in the history of the world: the Empire State Building. Rising from midtown Manhattan during the bitter dawn of the Great Depression, its 6,500 windows, 10 million bricks and then record 102 stories became an instant urban icon. A movie encounter with King Kong in 1933 only added to the building's reputation...
...Robinson's drive and determination have never been in doubt. A dedicated weight lifter who bulked up from 125 lbs. to more than 200 lbs. in college, he rises at dawn and begins each day with a workout, sometimes following along with a video called Buns of Steel. (Robinson's exercise routine has become the stuff of legend. Business Week reported three years ago that he did 300 sit- ups each morning; FORTUNE said at least 600 in a 1989 story; Vanity Fair put the number last year...
...ever bored? Hmmm. He tells of staking out the main and only street of Cedar Point, a hamlet's least piglet of a town. The idea is to watch all visible action, dawn to dusk, from the back of his van. But nothing happens. He puts aside as too metaphysical the lame notion that he himself constitutes Cedar Point's action for the day. It rains. That...
...also needed for the job itself. According to those who built the sukkah, the bolts were securely fastened with a wrench, and would have been impossible to remove by hand. To do so much damage, the vandals would have needed tools--wrenches, and flashlights if it took place before dawn--that most people don't have lying around just in case they decide to play a joke. Because the sukkah is located away from the main thoroughfare, the act was so time consuming, and the damage was so extensive, it is ridiculous to think the decision to vandalize...
...dawn outside Oracle, Ariz., this week, amid Indian chants and whirring cameras, four men and four women clad in bright red jumpsuits will wave % farewell to this world and enter a newly minted one. For two years they will live inside a sealed terrarium, about the size of 2 1/2 football fields, that mimics a more primitive earth. Tending their crops and livestock, they will receive nothing from outside. Dubbed Biosphere 2 (the earth is Biosphere 1), the glass-and-steel-enclosed structure has been seeded with 3,800 species of plants and animals in five different wilderness ecosystems...