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...most talked about skyscrapers of the past year, Norman Foster's 30 St. Mary Axe building in London--better known as "the gherkin" because of its shape--is a glass-enclosed vertical torpedo with sizable interior light wells and gardens scattered throughout its circular floor plates. Those permit each floor to communicate visually with others. "We can compose completely different organizational structures in terms of how you move through a building vertically," says Thom Mayne, of the forward-looking firm Morphosis, based in Santa Monica, Calif. "It would be much more like how you would move through a city horizontally...
...weird, sad exit for an honorable public servant. British Home Secretary David Blunkett, the country's chief law-enforcement officer, had no choice but to resign when an inquiry unearthed an e-mail and fax showing his office had helped speed up a residency permit for his ex-lover's nanny. The offense was tiny - the nanny was entitled to the permit anyway - but Blunkett had insisted there had been no intervention at all. (He later said he had forgotten the e-mail and fax.) Several missteps had steered him toward this patch of political quicksand. The public seemed willing...
...prepaid cardsnot only at their own outlets but also through grocery stores and shopping malls as well as over the Internet. The newly reopened toy store F.A.O. Schwarz is even offering a $100,000 gift card. Some of the cards include ATM access. Some let holders reload them; others permit transfer of funds to other cards or individuals. In one of the latest incarnations, at last count about 1,000 companies give their workers electronic-payroll cards to access accounts holding their wages, bonuses and commissions. Last year prepaid-card sales were $45 billion, and in 2006 sales are expected...
...discourse. It is the right of every student group to raise awareness on issues about which they feel strongly. But we question Harvard’s unfair policy. Allowing pro-life students to opt out of this portion of their fee is fundamentally unfair, and the University should not permit...
Among the details Conley’s committee are ironing out are whether the classes should be pass/fail, how interdisciplinary they should be, how to permit students to go abroad and whether pre-professional internships should be allowed for credit...