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Even more ambitious is the Urban Geo Grid proposed by Shimizu Corp. It would be an immense network of subterranean atriums connected by tunnels and filled with such facilities as offices, gymnasiums, libraries, exhibition halls and public baths. The project would be built 164 ft. below the ground, sprawl across 485 sq. mi. and accommodate 500,000 people. Not only would temperature and humidity be controlled, say the planners, but real sunlight would be reflected in through vents from the surface. Estimated cost: $80.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Japan's Underground Frontier | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...Good War is not the cold war, and an international page turner should never be confused with a geo-political thriller. The one man who can save Thomas is American David Quartermain, who fathered the illegitimate boy and is sitting out the war in Vermont. Quartermain, whose name evokes the dauntless hero of King Solomon's Mines, is not just well off. He is a member of the most powerful banking family in the U.S. For lagniappe, he bears a striking resemblance to Gary Cooper. The boy's only protector is a supermarksman out of Ghostbusters. Miquel is the sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savory Gambits | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...analyst for J.D. Power & Associates. Seductive too: in October GM sold to retail customers 11,443 of the 1989-model Fleetwoods (base price: $30,300) and De Villes ($25,435), 54% more than it sold in the same month in 1987. To lure younger buyers, GM has its Geo line of small cars. Priced from $7,000 to $12,000, the autos are miserly in fuel consumption but splashy in appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Stempel: Man in The Hot Seat | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...spoke about peasants with off-beat seriousness and the same mannerisms he used to talk about cigar shops on Madison Avenue. And of course, the peasants were not just impoverished, but the object of American geo-political movements. "The essence of my being to a peasant in Thailand is being an American--not by choice, but by paying taxes...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Wally's World | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...truly remarkable. Last week James Nachtwey won for the third time in four years, becoming the second person in the history of the award (after the late Larry Burrows of LIFE) to do so. Nachtwey's picture stories included a series done jointly for TIME and West Germany's GEO on the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, and coverage for TIME of the Philippines and the mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan. In addition, Nachtwey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association-University of Missouri School of Journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: May 4, 1987 | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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