Word: grayness
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...Beijing clean enough to host an Olympics? Last week cast some serious doubts. In one 24-hour period, the city was enveloped by a dense, dirty gray fog and the air-pollution index hit 414 on a scale that tops out at 500. Authorities consider that level "heavily polluted" and recommended that citizens "avoid outdoor activities." The fog was so thick that municipal officials closed one of the city's main highways and scores of flights into the capital were delayed...
Since the ICA is one of the linchpins of the city's plan to redevelop the waterfront, it was important to Medvedow and her architects to make the building a place where people could gather even when they weren't there for the art. It sits on a gray wood esplanade that, if all goes as planned, will become part of 47 miles of new harborside walkways. Diller and Scofidio have used the same wood to create a wide outdoor staircase that doubles as a bleachers-style seating area. It's located just under the ICA's major exterior flourish...
...Kowitt, the problems were due to clerical errors, and the company will accept all claims electronically in 2007. “It’s no fault but our own. We take 100 percent responsibility for it,” Kowitt said. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
Legally, ride-sharing services avoid the regulations that govern for-hire businesses like taxicabs by forbidding drivers to solicit requests for passengers. If the business grows--and if there are some high-profile incidents--that could change. "It's a gray area," says Paul Angenend, an attorney specializing in transportation law. "If you ride-share 20 times a month, then you're in the for-hire business...
...slow to anger and reluctant to speak out against perceived injustices. The Boxer Rebellion affair is symptomatic of a greater issue: when dealing with racism that takes more subtle forms than threats of violence or ethnic slurs, as Ho puts it, “You find yourself in this gray area, where the question is, is this a big enough deal for me to make a ruckus about it? When the minority group in question can’t agree if they’re being offended, why’s anyone else going to care...