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...interior heavy timber framing and flooring, the wood is actually from windfallen trees. The exterior shingle walls of the house conceal Durisol interior concrete forms made of recycled wood chips, insulating material and cement. The hollow cores of the forms are filled with concrete to become walls that resist fire, termites and rot. Even the concrete has a high content of fly ash, a waste by-product from power plants that requires less energy to produce than standard cement. Plus, there was minimal reliance on toxic chemicals in things like adhesives or piping. "Anything that ends in an 'ethylene...
...study at American universities. For a time, most of the country's ?lite officials, scholars and scientists were U.S.-trained. But that came to an abrupt halt with the Communists' victory in 1949. A year later, Sino-American relations hit their nadir during what Chinese call the "War to Resist America and Aid Korea," which left hundreds of thousands of Chinese dead, along with more than 50,000 Americans. Later, during the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the U.S. was routinely reviled as China's greatest enemy...
...energy?those industries that would soon yield guns, bombs and ships. Step three: expansion and war. The Japanese took on Russia, China and, in 1941, the United States. The Germans made two bids for hegemony in World Wars I and II. Though a democracy, the U.S. itself could not resist the lure of empire, grabbing Cuba and the Philippines from Spain...
Isabel and Arthur Boyd return to New York to begin to reinitiate Val into their society, pulling her away from the young, pure love of Marian and into their own problems. Marian expects Val to resist them, but she doesn’t, and Marian begins to resent them.Val’s psychiatrist, Dr. Braintree, becomes an even more formidable enemy, telling Val that she must grow out of such stubborn, us-against-the-world friendships with other girls. Marian tries to save the friendship by having Val meet Henry in person, but her plan goes awry, pushing...
...self-expression?a chance to exhale?after having been oppressed, shackled, silenced and placed in the dark. The unfortunate thing is that terrorists and enemies of the free world have now seized on Iraq as a base from which to operate. The world must hope that the Iraqis resist them. Cosmas Uzoma Odoemena Sokoto, Nigeria...