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...climb the steps and swipe myself through the turnstile with my student MetroCard. As I reached the top of the staircase and stepped out onto the far end of the concrete platform, fresh air would hit me in the face. I could look up and see the sky. It was usually empty—I think a flock of geese may have flown overhead once—but there was something so satisfying about being able to see the sky directly above Jamaica Avenue, unobstructed by that hulking strip of steel; it’s a small thing, though something...
Next, Hadid built some small but choice projects, including a ski jump--cafe in Innsbruck, Austria, that signs the sky with a swooping slalom. But especially since winning the Cincinnati commission in 1998--in a competition in which she beat out both Libeskind and Bernard Tschumi--Hadid has at last been getting jobs of a size that match her gifts, to say nothing of her press. There's another contemporary art center in Rome, offices and a factory for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, and a master plan for an enormous science city in Singapore. Her next American project...
While there is no evidence that the total number of physicians in the U.S. has declined, some veteran practitioners in states with sky-high malpractice premiums are quitting medicine. Even in states where malpractice insurance remains relatively affordable, doctors are increasingly practicing more "defensive medicine," trying to gird themselves against possible lawsuits by ordering unnecessary tests and thereby driving up health-care costs...
...charted it, we named it. Before we named it, we looked up to it. And we always will. Humans have gazed above and sought to learn more about the massive abyss that looms over us—space—and the gas and particles that sprinkle the sky with stars. Although we know that risks abound with any exploration of this magnitude, tragedies as a result of space journey become no less poignant when they occur...
...theories of the universe’s contraction and expansion, escape velocity, the furthest distance satellite probes have traveled (for the curious: Uranus) and the movement of the Universe following the big bang. Clearly enthralled with the entire experience, Rudenstine says that after four years, looking up at the sky still gives him the greatest reality check...