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...outside comes inside would turn out to be one of Nouvel's great preoccupations. Transparency is one of his bywords. Paradox is another. Again and again he toys with the idea of buildings that seem to dematerialize, that play hide and seek as you approach them. One of his most influential designs was for an unbuilt skyscraper in Paris, the Endless Tower. Envisioned as a structure rising to over 1300 ft. (400 m.), its surface would shift to ever lighter materials, from granite to aluminum to stainless steel and finally glass, appearing to disappear as it ascended into...
...Sampson and colleagues recently examined more than 3,000 violent acts committed in Chicago from 1995 to 2003, analyzing police records, census data and a survey of more than 8,000 residents. They discovered what Sampson calls the "Latino Paradox" - first-generation Mexican immigrants were 45% less likely to engage in violence than third-generation Americans. This pattern continued into the second generation, which was 22% less likely to be violent. Similar trends have been seen in New York and Miami, both of which have large immigrant enclaves. "Immigrant communities are often responsible for revitalizing the urban neighborhoods that they...
...academic work by seeking out off-campus arts opportunities.WHERE CREDIT IS DUEProfessor J.D. Connor ’92, the director of undergraduate studies of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department (VES) and a former member of The Crimson’s editorial board, is the first to admit the paradox of an unflinching course credit policy and the need to find an internship. “We’re not at a place where we can allow limited credit amounts for a course,” he says. “And at least in the arts...
...Turns out Einstein's physics provide the answer to that old paradox. A truly irresistible force colliding with a genuinely immovable object will produce an enormous black hole - which is, come to think of it, precisely what some nervous Democrats are starting to worry about...
There is a paradox in all this. The Clintons came to Washington as the avatars of a new kind of politics. If the Clintons indeed built the bridge they promised to build to the 21st century, the question now is whether their party wants to see them on the other side...