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...expansive glass walls make the outside landscape a backdrop for the building’s buzz of activity, though they are not completely aesthetic. Hartman explains that most energy consumption in buildings is a result of having artificial lights on during daylight, and that glass helps to combat this excess. “When most students experience a campus in New England, often much of the day the sun is down, or low. Our intent was to make the building like a lantern—glowing during the night.” Night or day, the Northwest Science Building promises...
...critics, the plan smacks of oil-fueled excess - of a piece with the mad dash across the Arabian peninsula, to build the tallest, biggest glitziest structures money can buy. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai, and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes coming up in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman...
...unsurprising consequence of such excess is that individuals and financial institutions must now retrench to rebuild their balance sheets. That is why this is not merely a financial crisis, but an economic crisis. A more prolonged recession than is currently expected is almost inevitable...
...This popular response mischaracterizes the nature of finance and the vital role it plays in our nation’s economy. While investment bankers do not produce tangible goods, they are key players in a vast and intricate system designed to move capital from those who have it in excess to those who need it. These financiers are compensated extremely—perhaps excessively—well for their services. Finance may not be a “noble” profession, but it’s not an abomination either...
...John McCain: About 8,000 people may die this year waiting for organ transplants. Do you think the free market should include kidneys? You've said human rights begin at conception. But fertility clinics create excess embryos that are frozen and often discarded, which you've favored using for research. So are some embryos more equal than others...