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...dedicated to tobacco-awareness. She literally “kicks butts,” Marine said. The event also recognized NASA astronaut Wilson, who spoke in a soft voice about how her unflagging childhood interest in astronomy led her to see the sunrise from space. “The sky is no longer the limit,” she said. “Outer space is the limit to what you can achieve.” —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Google's brand is known for both its ambition and its quirkiness, and the company's logo "Do No Evil" seems to allude to the power it wields. In fact, Google has teamed up with the world's top astronomers to create "Google Sky," a new feature that allows anyone with a computer and an Internet connection "to browse and explore the universe" through the Hubble Space Telescope; Googlers will even be able to see the universe at x-ray or infrared wavelengths...
...influential designs was for an unbuilt skyscraper in Paris, the Endless Tower. Envisioned as a structure rising to over 1300 ft. (400 m.), its surface would shift to ever lighter materials, from granite to aluminum to stainless steel and finally glass, appearing to disappear as it ascended into the sky...
...Then there's his Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, a glass-walled structure that has another, free-standing glass wall set a few yards in front of it. You see the glass building behind a shimmering screen of glass that's constantly reflecting the street and sky. It's architecture as mirage...
...effect is to turn the entire 31-story exterior into a watery pixel field of color, blooms of orange, fuschia and reds near the base giving way to clouds of blue closer to the sky, with the occasional panel of yellow or red appearing wherever it may. At night a lighting system adds blue, yellow and white in varying combinations. Nouvel has called his building, which houses a local water company, "a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." That would be one way to look at it. As just about everyone...