Word: roofing
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...bombers. The first explosion came shortly after 1 a.m. local time in the old market, an open square surrounded by shops that are often filled with both tourists and locals on weekends. The second attacker struck nearby, driving a car into the lobby of the Ghazala Garden Hotel. The roof collapsed, and police Saturday looked amid the rubble for survivors and the dead. Soon after the first two attacks, a bomb left inside a bag in a parking lot went off, killing six tourists. It's unclear who carried out the assult, though an extremist Islamic group has claimed responsibility...
...sight startled visitors. There, in the center of Longzhao, a prospering village on the outskirts of the city of Chengdu, were the crumbling remains of a mud-brick house, its thatched roof scattered around it like straw dandruff. The hut, obviously abandoned, was surrounded by freshly constructed brick-and-concrete apartments. The eyesore was cleared away a few weeks ago, but why had it remained so long? "We kept it there so that people would remember what it was like five years ago," explains Ru Furong, director of Longzhao's garment factory. "We used it to educate the young...
...year, they were able to buy a three-room duplex for $1,700. The collective chipped in about $300, and the couple will pay the balance over several years. Liao does not begrudge the debt, since it symbolizes better times. "We used to live under a straw roof," she says. Her next big purchase: a color TV to replace the black-and-white...
...another celebrated case, a burglar supposedly fell through the skylight of a school, sued and was awarded $260,000, plus $1,500 a month. The full story, it seems, is that a 19-year-old man and three friends tried to take a floodlight off the roof of a California high school as a lark; he fell through the skylight and suffered loss of the use of all four limbs, plus severe brain damage. The skylight had been painted the same color as the roof and was indistinguishable at night; the school district knew that it was dangerous because someone...
...Stumpf yearns to broaden his range. "To tell you the truth," he says, "I'm bored with designing for the office. Bored stiff." Among the things he would like to design are baby strollers that do not jiggle, an airplane with an observation deck, a taxicab with a glass roof, and police uniforms and cars that "don't scare the hell out of kids." His manner is sparky, one part anger to two parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under...