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Stafford agreed that Harvard ought to educateits users...
...galleries are the best part of the museum, as they ought to be. Botta has done them with impeccable taste and has resisted the temptation to make them depend on artificial light. Because the blocks of the museum mass are stepped back, each floor gets its share of filtered daylight through the roof, and the detailing of these skylights recalls the great prototype of Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, still the most beautiful art-display building erected in postwar America. Botta worked for a time in Kahn's firm in the U.S., and the influence...
...continent-size hunks of the earth's crust--spurred hope that major upheavals could be predicted. In Japan polls showed that 50% or more of the public thought they could be. Tokyo even established an Earthquake Assessment Committee of six eminent seismologists to advise the Prime Minister when he ought to issue a public earthquake warning. But in 17 years no such warning has ever been issued, and many experts think the $100 million a year Japan devotes to trying to predict earthquakes could be better spent on something else, like improving coordination among disaster-relief agencies to handle...
Given all these vagaries, how can cities plan to withstand earthquakes? One cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross...
...plans to get welfare recipients off the dole. But Clinton, whose Administration has already granted several states carte blanche to do just that, cautioned that he would fight GOP-led attempts to gut welfare if they endanger benefits to children. "We must pass welfare reform this year, but it ought to be the right kind with the right results," Clinton said. In a vote later in the day, the 30 Republican governors in the NGA failed to enlist enough Democratic backers to reach the 3/4 requirement needed for NGA endorsement of their welfare reform proposal...