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...treatment plant, where it is purified for home use. The wastewater, meanwhile, runs into a gigantic underground pipe, nearly as wide as a subway tunnel, that traverses the length of Singapore. To speed the water flow, this giant pipe tilts progressively downward, reaching a depth of 230 ft. By that point, hundreds of millions of gallons of water have arrived below a lip of reclaimed land on the easternmost edge of Singapore. There, a newly opened $2.5 billion water plant pumps the water back to the surface and treats it, discharging some of it out to sea and treating some...
...Nekoma, N.D. Huge earth-moving machines dug up 1.75 million cu. yd. of rich, black loam from the 470-acre site. Contractors built the base with 160,000 cu. yd. of concrete and 12,000 tons of steel. They crowned their work with a partly buried, 123-ft.-tall pyramid containing the system's key radar. Each of its four "eyes" had sprinklers to wash away any potential radioactive debris from collisions between the nearby nuclear-tipped interceptors and incoming Soviet missiles...
...book's best moments come as the war draws to an end and the Monuments Men discover booty in the salt mines at Altaussee in northern Austria. There, Hitler's troops had stored 10,000 of their most prized pieces, including Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges, a 4-ft. (1.3 m) marble statue found "lying on her side on a filthy brown-and-white mattress." The Monuments Men wrapped her in coats, paper and rope before placing her in a cart. "I think we could bounce her from alp to alp, all the way to Munich, without doing...
...ft. store, a favorite of actors Ben Foster and Hunter Parrish, is on the border of funky Los Feliz and trendy Silver Lake, far from the chic boutiques of Hollywood. Housed in what was originally a print shop, it has a decidedly non-L.A. vibe, with salvage-yard furniture, exposed-brick walls and beamed ceilings that create a Depression-era backdrop. Featured brands include a mix of big names like Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander and new American collections from Patrik Ervell and Tim Hamilton. "Most of them are up-and-coming designers," Urbinati says, "but that...
...living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky coal iron makes him dizzy and one electric bulb, which is rarely used because work is over...