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...spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The other, a glass globe, holds a multistory re-creation of a rain forest. This globe in turn sits against a wide glass wall that looks onto the cultivated woodlands of Golden Gate Park, mingling views of rain forest and parkland until this very rational building seems just about overtaken by the natural world. "As in music," says Piano, "in architecture you always need a kind of precision, clarity, but with one condition--that you have the freedom then to destroy...
...presidential nominees have cultivated reputations as change agents and truth tellers, but their tepid, hedged support for the emergency package didn't look reassuring either. Obama has taken a cautious and detached approach, articulating principles--transparency, oversight, limits on golden parachutes, protections for taxpayers and homeowners--but mostly staying out of the way. He didn't really act like a leader, but he doesn't hold a leadership position, and so far voters seem to appreciate his cool response. While Washington Mutual and Wachovia were disappearing and investment banks were going extinct overnight, Obama was pulling ahead in the polls...
...billion, Genentech--of which Roche has owned a 55% majority stake since 1990--has produced some of the most cutting-edge best sellers on the pharmaceutical market today. Its pipeline remains one of the industry's most promising. In the past, Roche always applied a light touch to this golden goose, but this summer it became too tempting for Schwan. On July 21, in what will probably amount to a hostile takeover, Roche offered $44 billion for full control of the San Francisco--based firm...
Frank began his talk by drawing a comparison between American politics today and in the late 19th century, which he called both the “Golden Age of American capitalism” and the “Golden Age of American misery...
...Homer and Cicero noted incidents involving ancient Greek and Roman mariners, and Western Europeans weathered Viking onslaughts during the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs frustrated by Spain's dominance of the Caribbean commissioned privateers to harass the Spanish fleet-helping to usher in piracy's golden age, when swashbuckling marauders like Edward (Blackbeard) Teach roamed the sun-splashed islands, plundering gold and silver...