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...London, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the "bird's nest" Olympic Stadium in Beijing - could not be more unlike Zumthor's spare exercises in subtraction and compression. Herzog & de Meuron revel in complexity, intricate structures and elaborate surfaces. Zumthor reduces and purifies. Le Corbusier, that other great Swiss purist, would have approved. (See TIME's photos of Peter Zumthor's work...
...sort of one word that sums it up and that’s tradition,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “There’s a tremendous amount of tradition and history with this meet. This Friday shaped up to be another great competition. I was really pleased with the way the teams competed, and it was a lot of fun to be part of.”Co-captain Becky Christensen, in the second HYOC match of her career, said she enjoyed not only competing on the track but also getting an opportunity to meet...
...scattering a million pennies on streets around its 650 restaurants. On the coins are stickers offering free meals, free drinks and buy-one-get-one-free deals. Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and sandwich chain, gave away free sandwiches in its U.S. locations on April 1. Shops in Great Britain, Australia and Spain have experimented with "pay what you want" options on their menus...
Paradoxically, the thirsty city was once a great lake, where the Aztecs founded their island citadel Tenochtitlan in 1325. When the Spanish conquerors took control they drained much of the water, laying the basis for the vast expansion of the metropolis across the entire Valley of Mexico. However, as the growing population continues to suck water out in wells, Mexico City is sinking down into the old lake bed at a rate of about three inches a year. This downward plunge puts extra pressure on water distribution pipes, which are now so leaky they lose about 40% of liquid before...
...long road through self-parody. It’s difficult, at first, to listen to a band squander the potential of a record like “Machine” on such a middling follow-up. But then again maybe, in appropriately punk fashion, they only had one great record in them anyway.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...