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...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. The effect is a dynamic oscillation of forms, with alternating voids and volumes, something utterly unlike the inert slab that is the typical tower...
...Vuttichai. "They wouldn't have accepted it anyway." The TV coverage did not show what happened next. Soldiers began loading the men into trucks. Many of the men could not climb up themselves, so they were tossed in, and instructed to lie flat. Then soldiers started stacking the mostly inert bodies one on top of the other, four and five deep. Those who lifted their heads were hit with rifle butts...
Beyond hemoglobin, there are totally synthetic blood substitutes like perfluorocarbon (PFC), a cheap, inert molecule with an enormous capacity to carry oxygen. Those fluids behave like an additional reservoir of oxygen for the body to utilize during exercise. However, because PFC has a short half-life and is effective only when individuals breathe abnormally high concentrations of oxygen, it will probably remain a very difficult technology to abuse...
...Zhang tried something utterly different: he retold China's founding myth as an epic martial-arts saga. Hero was undeniably gorgeous?Zhang, a former cinematographer, couldn't make an ugly film if he were forced to shoot with a Super 8 and a penlight?but viewers found it curiously inert, neither as affecting as his earlier, semi-subversive work nor as kinetic as a full-blooded action film. If Zhang Yimou had sold out, as some suggested, the audience hadn't received much in return...
...when the lights flickered off. Zhu was forced to lug his desktop computer to an Internet caf? in a neighboring district to get the message out in time. When he returned home that night, the power was off, rendering his new flat-screen TV and expensive air-conditioning unit inert. "My TV is just like a painting on the wall with no use," he says. "And I've started using a traditional fan to keep myself cool." One of Hangzhou's most-popular chat rooms now focuses on how to deal with such blackout woes?although these discussions, of course...