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...completed a housing project in Gifu, Japan. And on Dec. 7 their first major building in the U.S., the new home of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), will open on a prominent waterfront site as the first segment of the city's grand scheme to redevelop Boston Harbor...
...galleries in enclosed space on the fourth floor while placing most of the public spaces on the lower, more light-filled, levels. Even the 325-seat theater space is bounded on two sides by double-height glass walls so that performances can take place against the backdrop of the harbor. (The walls can also be closed off with scrims when necessary or blacked out completely.) The elevators are transparent, so you experience the view vertically as you move from one floor to the next. And along the upper floor there is a lengthy, glass-enclosed corridor facing the water that...
...Islamic violence. The topic is extraordinarily fraught. There are, after all, a billion or so nonviolent Muslims on the globe, the Roman Catholic Church's own record in the religious-mayhem department is hardly pristine, and even the most naive of observers understands that the Vicar of Christ might harbor an institutional prejudice against one of Christianity's main global competitors. But by speaking out last September in Regensburg, Germany, about the possible intrinsic connection between Islam and violence, the Pontiff suddenly became a lot more interesting. Even when Islamic extremists destroyed several churches and murdered a nun in Somalia...
...also helps companies practice "strategic agility," a popular management theory endorsed by Donald Sull, a management expert at the London Business School. He argues that chaotic working environments frequently harbor hidden opportunities. "You successfully compete by consistently identifying opportunities and threats and reacting before your rivals," Sull explains. Team McLaren, for example, had just 10 seconds to make its decision...
Sasselov, the initiative’s director, has spearheaded a new way to discover planets—specifically those that might harbor life...