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...ascending flight path. Technically, Calatrava's great wings are functional--when closed they shield the museum's arching skylight. In fact, their real function is pure glorious gesture, a flourish of structural brio. When opened their lovely wingspan gives the museum a stratospheric silhouette and Milwaukee a stunning new landmark...
...landmark work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn observed that as a new technology gets widely adopted, it often makes things worse for a while, as people spend time and money on both the old technology and the new one. That's certainly the case today, as we make the transition from paper to digital records. In fact, in a perverse way, our growing paper waste demonstrates the digital revolution's success in getting more and better information into the hands of more workers...
...Evan Bayh, took a few minutes to gloat. Over danishes and coffee they called the bill "revolutionary," "a quantum leap" and "the real thing." Later in the day, President Bush pronounced the reforms "historic" and Ohio Republican John Boehner, who ushered the bill through the House, proclaimed, "These landmark reforms will bring purpose to a federal law that has lost its focus and never met its promise...
...even if Bush is adamant on testing a new missile defense system, the ABM treaty should be amended rather than entirely dissolved. The pact has been amended before, and this process would be a far better option than the complete abandonment of a landmark agreement that has been the keystone of disarmament policy for decades. The progress made earlier this year on reducing American and Russian nuclear stockpiles appeared to be a step in the right direction, and we are confident that Bush could find a compromise with Putin to amend the treaty. Even if such a compromise is eventually...
BRITAIN One Fell Swoop In an unprecedented global swoop, police on four continents broke up an online child-pornography ring, arresting more than 130 people suspected of trading images of young children. Twenty countries took part in the 10-month-long British-led investigation, codenamed Operation Landmark...