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...Rogers'next major project was the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, completed in 1986, a building that was almost as much of a shock to that city as the Pompidou had been for Paris. It extended the Pompidou's externalization-idea skyward. It also worked ambitious variations on an idea developed by the great American architect Louis Kahn, who proposed that a building could be conceived as a system of "served" and "servant" spaces. Servant spaces, the ones set aside for elevators. stairways, pipes, wiring and ventilation, could be housed apart from the served spaces, the offices, factory...
...result but on specific plays: how many runs an individual batsman will make, how he will get out, when he will get out. This so-called spread or spot betting means games can be tampered with, if not completely rigged. Did Woolmer discover something untoward in the shock defeat to Ireland or the earlier loss to the West Indies that could have led to a confrontation and his death? Could he have been about to make some revelation about match fixing from his time with South Africa (he left before Cronje's admissions) and Pakistan in a book...
...advocates also say it strengthens regulations when warranted. Ernst & Young's index of AIM's oil and gas companies - around 7% of AIM's list - slid by 6% in 2006, a lingering reverberation from a series of shock announcements from energy firms that their reserves were dry. Last year the LSE began requesting such firms submit independent annual reports on their reserves...
...grayer, with less of that shock of black hair that once marked him, but as intense as ever, the onetime child prodigy won't be returning to chess. "I don't want to look back," says Kasparov. "I have a new life...
When the U.S. invaded Iraq four years ago, Yasser Obaid Hussein's life was full of peril - but his mind was filled with hope. Night after night, his modest Baghdad apartment was shaken by the U.S. "shock and awe" bombing campaign. His pregnant wife Sheherezad was worried that a cruise missile might crash through the window. To calm her and their three children, Yasser tried to stay positive. "If we survive the bombs," he recalls saying, "we will have a wonderful new life...