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Sophomore Sandra Stankovic lept to victory in the high jump by clearing a height of 1.65 meters. Freshman Maureen Boyle’s throw of 12.97 meters was good enough to beat a field of weight throwers that was entirely composed of first-year collegiate athletes...
...right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call the hijackers cowardly, a judgment issued with her typical brisk authority and with the inevitable result that it sounded callous, however true it may have been. At the height of the Serbian campaign against Sarajevo she traveled to that city more than a dozen times to help focus world attention on Serbian atrocities. To lift morale, she even directed a production there of Waiting for Godot. The exhausted locals would probably have preferred Cats, but her heart...
...along the ocean at speeds that can reach almost 500 miles an hour. In deep, open water, you would never notice even the most devastating tsunamis, which are often no more than a few inches high there. But when the water's depth decreases, the wavelength shortens and the height of the wave increases. Then it crashes onto shore with the power to wreck buildings and throw trucks around as if they were Ping-Pong balls...
...where the new "supertalls" are going up. Coming soon is the Burj Dubai, in Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. It was designed by the same Adrian Smith who did Trump's tower. In 2008, when the Dubai building is complete, he says, it will rise to a height "of well over 2,000 ft." He won't say just how high. His clients don't want to tip their hand to other builders who have projects in the planning stages. If the others knew where the bar was set, they could easily pump their towers...
Though new American skyscrapers are not going to the same height as the supertalls being built in other nations, more complicated profiles are finally making their way into the U.S. skyline. Calatrava will be building a tower soon in New York City. His plan is for a structure that separates a dozen condos into discrete four-story modules--town houses in the sky. Each apartment is a $30 million, 10,000-sq.ft. package that's separately cantilevered from an 835-ft. central core, then further supported by exposed trusses that attach to steel piers running the full height of the building...