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...will rise to a height "of well over 2,000 ft." He won't say just how high. His clients don't want to tip their hand to other builders who have projects in the planning stages. If the others knew where the bar was set, they could easily pump their towers up a few feet higher--or more than a few feet. Architects and engineers agree that it's only a matter of time before a tower rises somewhere in Asia or the Middle East to 3,000 ft.--more than twice the height of either tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Going Up ... and Up: When Height Is All That Matters | 12/30/2004 | See Source »

...have now turned every contest into a hatefest. Opposing players must be verbally eviscerated, their personal problems made fodder for derision. Home-team players who don't measure up aren't spared either. And the fans are hardly discouraged by arena managers happy to sell them overpriced booze and pump up the atmosphere with lasers and loud music. So does the fault lie in our stars or in ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fans and Players and Playing So Rough | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...million Americans undergo surgery each year, 70 million complain of chronic pain, and half of all visits to doctors' offices are about pain. No wonder innovations in pain management make news. Among the latest: a single epidural injection that delivers 48 hours of time-released morphine; a portable balloon pump that delivers a continuous supply of a local anesthetic directly to the wound site; and a transdermal patch the size of a credit card that is as effective as a patient-controlled pump but doesn't require a needle and tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A To Z | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...headaches or coldness in the hands and feet, but they also may not. People with less severe hypertension may experience nothing at all until calamity strikes. One of the commonest of those pressure-related disasters is heart attack. The higher pressure climbs, the harder the heart has to pump to push the blood. Like any other muscle called on to do more work, the heart responds by enlarging, chiefly in the left ventricle, which is its main pumping chamber. Increased muscle mass is fine in the biceps, but it's bad in the heart, which must be lean and flexible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing A Gasket | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...explore the state of San Andreas. The designers at Rockstar have packed the cities of Los Santos and San Fiero (a.k.a. Los Angeles and San Francisco) with hundreds of Easter egg--like surprises for many happy days of hunting. You can get your head shaved at the barber's, pump up your muscles at a gym, grab a bucket of wings at the Clucking Bell drive-through and go watch the sun set over Verona Beach. How much crime you commit along the way is entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Video Games: Cool Games | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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