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...interglacial periods - we are enjoying one now, East Coast blizzards notwithstanding - the ice sheets retreat, the glaciers melt and sea level rises. The expansive but quickly melting ice sheets of Greenland, the North Pole and Antarctica are all that is left of our last glacial period, which reached its peak about 20,000 years...
...said that the fading effects of the stimulus—which will reach its peak impact over the summer—and the Obama administration’s impending budget cutbacks add up to “a pretty significant turn towards contractionary policy taking place over the next year or so in the face of a deeply depressed economy...
...nation's elite "Top 400 Contractors" by Engineering News Record, is completing a gleaming white 60,000 square foot warehouse and office space for CR Lawrence whose business is construction, industrial, architectural and automotive supplies. Ed Sorbel, superintendent for Carpenter's Local 630, says at the project's peak more than 70 men worked at the site. But the outlook is grim for commercial construction firms such as Oltmans and its union work force. Asked if business is picking up, Oltmans Project Manager James Wu, 37, says, "I have not seen it. It's not looking good ahead." (See TIME...
...great albums under their belt, the band continues to hone and perfect. “Who Makes Your Money” is the sleek slow-burner Daniel has been trying to write for years, with its midway shift from bass to guitar creating the album’s sublime peak. Even the least thrilling tracks on “Transference”—piano ballad “Goodnight Laura” and the meandering, bass-heavy “Nobody Gets Me But You”—are unmistakably the work of seasoned veterans...
When he died in 1961 - at 51 years of age, after surgery for a brain tumor - Saarinen was just arriving at the peak of his fame and success. He'd been on the cover of TIME, he had A-list clients, and his streamlined furniture for Knoll was so of the moment that Coca-Cola used his Womb chair in a magazine ad showing an exhausted Santa Claus slumped in it. (See TIME's video "The Legacy and Return of Architect Eero Saarinen...