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...It’s more than that. It has a qualitative aspect,” he said. “It has to do also with usability of the building, how people use buildings.” For Behnisch, famous for his use of tall glass panes that flood light into buildings’ nighttime surroundings, buildings should also foster a sense of place and encourage interactions between people. “We can’t force people to communicate,” he said, “but we can create the opportunities for them...
...Conservatives can sound reasonable when comparing a system that allows private money to flood in to one that bans it entirely. If a heiress wants to spend her millions on an untested cancer treatment, this should not be prohibited for equality’s sake...
...people of Kibweze are baffled by the air-miles debate. They have certainly noticed the effects of climate change, with the traditional wet and dry seasons now becoming flood and drought seasons. "But I don't think it's my fault," says farmer John Muyu. His argument is supported by research at Cranfield University in the U.K., which found that the carbon footprint from flying flowers grown in Kenya to Britain can be less than one fifth of the figure for flowers grown in Dutch greenhouses...
...paintings are soaring in worth is because of their relative scarcity, which ironically also accounts for his modest profile among Southeast Asian artists. Sotheby's and Christie's have sold around half a dozen Zakii works each over the past several years. It's a trickle compared to the flood of paintings by his peers - the Indonesians Yunizar, Nyoman Masriadi or Putu Sutawijaya, for instance, all of whom have received lots of attention in Asian art circles. "A big body of his work is in the hands of a few collectors," explains Richard Koh, the artist's Kuala Lumpur-based...
Bush vetoed the measure because of its Bizarro World price tag, which split the difference between a $14billion House version and a $15billion Senate version with a $23billion consensus bill. Defenders say it has been seven years since Congress approved flood-control projects, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has championed the bill. But the corps already has a more than $50billion backlog of unfinished projects, and investigations had exposed its dysfunctional habits--wasting money, draining wetlands, cooking its books to justify boondoggles--long before its bungling drowned New Orleans. Still, corps projects are a form...