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...result of construction disasters, which included two fires and the collapse of a scaffolding that forced the streets of Times Square to be sealed off for several weeks. None of this had anything to do with creating a green building, but it gave Four Times Square (its official name) a bad rep and a cynic's nickname: "Times Square Titanic." Some newly ensconced employees of the Conde Nast magazine empire, the building's principal tenant, even contemplated extra life insurance. Then there were the break-in glitches, such as too-cold air conditioning, balky elevators and improperly installed locks...
...NAME OF SCIENCE...
...name Greenpeace immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...
After spending the last days of his vacation at a campsite in northern England, the narrator plans to travel to India. First, though, he agrees to paint a fence for the campground owner in exchange for free rent. The traveler, who never merits a name, really must get going, but the tasks keep piling up. Before long, he's rebuilding a jetty, doing homework for the owner's daughter, playing on the local pub's dart team and running the town's milk route. In this creepy, deadpan novel by a nominee for Britain's Booker Prize, nothing much happens...
Hello? Desktop computers are so, like, 1998. Anyone with half a clue - and that includes AOL, Palm, Microsoft and Motorola, among others - knows that cell phones are now the platform to develop for. Web browsing, instant messages, spreadsheets - you name it, and somebody's squeezing it into that tiny little matte-black case...