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...also, sometimes, uncanny. So much has been made about the rational character of the Pompidou that it's easy to overlook its enduring strangeness, the climate of uneasy feeling it creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned (and mime-infested) plaza in front of it, it's not hard to imagine that the underground workings of the city itself have erupted upward. The Pompidou may be high tech, its exoskeleton may be a rationalist's grid, but it strikes a note of ferocious dislocations and forbidden disclosures that...
...easy to overlook how important a building like this one could be. While the power and auto industries get the bulk of the blame for the planet's carbon crisis, the business of operating office buildings and homes is responsible for 38% of U.S. CO2 emissions. In the case of offices, mid--20th century technology worked against us, as the development of low-temperature fluorescent lights and high-powered air conditioning made it possible to design sealed structures that you could drop into any climate. "It gave architects the power to design anything, then hand it over to engineers...
...doubt the American public loves to charge a matter with controversy. Yet the warring pro-life and pro-choice armies have become polarized to the point that they may as well speak different languages. While they debate the morality and practicality of abortion, they overlook their common concern. Each wants what is best for mother and child, and as Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) puts it, “Nobody wants to need an abortion.” Then there is one national course of action attacking the root of this issue, behind which all can throw their support...
...Taylor said it is evangelicals' insistence on the literal truth of the Bible that leads them to too often belittle science and at the same time overlook more fundamental truths expressed by the Bible's use of deeply powerful myths and metaphors. "When we say God is the Father, we aren't trying to say he is like my dad," Taylor says...
...Romney registers a meager 9% in TIME's poll of Republicans, but there are plenty of signs that conservatives are trying to overlook his past and fall in love. He won the straw poll at CPAC, and the endorsements are piling up. Romney has also picked up much of the political operation of Jeb Bush, who is the could-have-been candidate most longed for on the right. Money doesn't seem to be a problem either; Romney raised $6.5 million on a single National Call Day in early January. The campaign is flush enough...