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Stein had come to Harvard from Miami, where he really didn’t know anyone involved in film. Accordingly, he thought a future in film was likely just a “pie in the sky dream...
...California hometown, the night sky stretches on forever, full of stars, pushing all of us homeward. Taking refuge from the lowering darkness, we see each other with grateful eyes, reconnecting after a long day away from home. When I come back to my Brooklyn apartment, the nighttime drones with disjointed activity. Without the tacit community of my youth—or even the looser one shared by frenetic Harvard students—I feel more disconnected from my roots, from myself, than I have ever felt before...
...cloud's water or ice particles bigger and yield more rain. The technique has been used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years, with varying success. But the improvement of weather technology - and an enduring human interest in trying to play with the sky - has kept the practice afloat during times of hard skepticism and dwindling funds. Now this thirsty corner of Australia could be on the path to prove, once and for all, whether we can help make rain...
...strides briskly toward the base of the Burj Dubai, the soaring skyscraper he's in charge of building. Riding together in a jangling construction elevator, it takes us 3 min. 50 sec. to ascend to the giddy heights of the 104th floor - and the building's reach for the sky won't stop there. At the current rate, says Sang, his laborers - some 4,000 construction workers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent - are adding a new story every three days. At that pace, the Burj Dubai will this week surpass Taipei 101, a 1,666-ft. (508-m) tower...
...craggy flanks of Tonelagee Mountain, the haze lifted momentarily to expose a breathtaking spectrum of color and texture: tracts of lavender heather, russet and burnt-gold rushes, somber rock, downy moss, a thousand shades, of green rushing streams, fern-limned pools, and glistening earth and slag. The slate-grey sky rendered every other hue all the more dramatic. This close to the earth and the sky, this deep and this far within the terrain, there was nothing between me and the poetry of the place...