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...tall buildings without cringing.") You get a grasp of what ingenious engineering is all about from the London headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the gherkin because it rises against the sky like a plump green pickle. (And yes, nobody has missed the more phallic interpretations.) It too has a triangular steel trusswork, a structural necessity that doubles as a twirling surface pattern. But the building's signal feature is the inclusion of large interior gardens throughout. "Those become the lungs of the building," says...
After falling in love with a plot of very rocky soil, Cristophe Baron moved from the Champagne region of France to Walla Walla, Wash. (home of the sweet onion), in 1993. Today, as the state's only biodynamic (uberorganic) winemaker, he is producing plump, cultworthy Syrah, the noble grape of the northern Rhone, under his label, Cayuse...
...produced expressly for this exhibit, that flank the entryway and set the stage for this strange trip into the time-warped world of North Korea. On the right, spiffy, Mao-suited founding father Kim Il Sung surveys a construction site, surrounded by smiling, hard-hatted laborers; on the left, plump and girlishly handsome son Kim Jong Il stands on the deck of a speedboat, surrounded by marines. Visitors then walk through a series of galleries enclosed within a giant red-walled box set up in the museum's hangar-like exhibit space. "It's like entering the cocoon of North...
...what we're missing by not rolling in honey all day in the south of France, that great sunlit throne room of the middle-class imagination. In Mayle's books, both the novels and the nonfiction accounts of his antic good life among the French, the olives are always plump and succulent, the vin rose tickles the palate just so and the croissants are so delectable that they seem to be buttering themselves...
...indecent acts. According to Graner, the photos, taken from a vantage point above graphic scenes previously made public, show two more sergeants from the 372nd and four military-intelligence officers watching with him as a chubby man in fatigues pushes naked Iraqi prisoners into a pile. Graner says the plump man is a civilian intelligence contractor and the military intelligence guys include two high-ranking sergeants. The pictures, attorney Womack told TIME, prove Graner was not giving orders but taking them...