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Among the first and at the time tallest of New York City's signature skyscrapers when it was completed in 1902, the 22-story Flatiron, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23rd Street, is instantly recognizable for its triangular shape. Though it was dwarfed 30 years later by...
Another panelist, Saad al-Barrak, deputy chairman and group CEO of Kuwait-based mobile-phone operator Zain, argued that the greater political challenge may be internal, with Gulf countries making poor progress toward democratic reform. While the region has built key "hardware" such as roads, schools and skyscrapers, al-Barrak...
We could, for example, become far better at judging threats before catastrophe strikes. We have technological advantages that our ancestors lacked, and we know where disasters are likely to occur. And yet we flirt shamelessly with risk. We construct city skylines in hurricane alleys and neighborhoods on top of fault...
All of us, but especially people in charge - of a city, a theater, a business - should recognize that people can be trusted to do their best at the worst of times. They will do even better if they are encouraged to play a significant role in their own survival before...
That awful realization awaits tens of thousands of Chinese as time inexorably runs out for their loved ones who on May 14 were still trapped in collapsed apartment blocks, homes, schools and factories. A huge relief effort, including 50,000 Chinese soldiers, was under way, but the devastation from the...