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...said the place made them queasy. Then the visitors came. As they climbed to the upper floors of the titanium-and-granite-clad structure, which echoes the silhouette of the Rockies, some began feeling dizzy and nauseated. The likely culprits: a plunging 100-ft. atrium and walls slanted at odd angles. "If you have walls tilting toward or away from you, that disrupts people's balance," says University of Colorado architecture professor Taisto Makela. Of the 11 students he recently took to the museum, three felt dizzy...
Starbucks fancies itself a small company, which might ring a little odd, considering that the coffee giant is regularly parodied as being practically unavoidable. Well, the joke is only going to get funnier as the Seattle firm, with its shareholders clearly in mind, gets even bigger, selling more stuff, from hot food to hot music, in more places than ever before. Right now Big Green runs 12,440 locations worldwide, but the goal is 40,000, which would trump even McDonald...
...Vaughn and caught Kessler unable to make the adjustment.“Our defensemen played it really well,” Chu said. “We are going to get into situations when you play aggressively that you give up 2-on-1’s or odd-man rushes at times. It was unlucky when she made a good step on the play. It redirected off her stick.”From the first intermission until overtime, the Wildcats took control for large stretches at a time. They peppered Kessler with 25 shots in those two periods, versus...
...said. “But I didn’t even know it.”But despite the lack of notoriety, these players have taken full advantage of the opportunity to play in Lavietes—Harvard’s biggest stage. And although the crowd of seventy-odd fans is not present, the scout team still relishes the chance to be a part of Harvard basketball in any way.“The huge commitment is not there, but we get to play in the main gym, get after it two times a week,” Boswell...
...clock strikes the hour. As students pour from nearby classrooms, they pause to peer, wide-eyed, into the windows of room 109. They take advantage of this rare chance to snatch a glimpse of the notorious Math 55. Fascinated, their eyes explore the encoded chalkboard, entrancing them with its odd arrangement of foreign symbols, formulas, and proofs...