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...depend on it every day as I walk to Au Bon Pain," said Van Hardy. "I looked twice at it today because I do orient myself by that time...

Author: By Sandra S. Park, | Title: Tickety-Tock, Clock Stopped | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

Oded Ben-Ami, a spokesman for Rabin, watched it in wonder. "It was a handshake with someone who just a moment ago was the devil in person," he said, "and from now on is your partner in negotiation." The Lebanese daily L'Orient-Le Jour made a cooler but no less momentous assessment: "A prodigious moment this handshake, soberly, none too warmly exchanged between Rabin and Arafat, as if they were crushed by the terrible responsibility that their historic gesture condemned them to share." This is the stuff of modern diplomatic power. It is impulsive and ephemeral and can vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History in a Handshake | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Mountaineering: No Room at the Top | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...using the room and how much light is streaming in through the windows. But beyond that, "Everything we did took lighting into account," says architect Randy Croxton, who also designed the National Resources Defense Council building. "The height of work stations, the color of paint on the walls, the orientation of windows and corridors -- all were designed to optimize lighting strategy." Moreover, the lighting isn't homogeneous, the way it is in most offices. "It's varied according to when and where it is needed and also varied to create effects, natural shadows and / silhouettes." Such subtleties humanize the workplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture Goes Green | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Voyaging to the Orient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Class is Cool, Fun and Easy: Not | 9/25/1992 | See Source »

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