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...sculptor, and he had studied sculpture before switching to architecture. The massive curve of the Gateway Arch, the muscular reach of the tilted pylons of Washington's Dulles International Airport, the black-granite palisades of the CBS headquarters, his only skyscraper, a thing that appears to shoot skyward from the bedrock of Manhattan - these are works of an architect, like Gehry and Calatrava today, who was thinking in sculptural terms...
...familiar analogies between kite flying and Afghan politics that became famous in the bestselling novel The Kite Runner. On Kite Hill, as in the book, the kite string is textured in glue and glass, and can slice a sleeve or draw blood from a finger as it un-spools skyward. Once you've got your kite in the air, the aim is to cut down another kite - these battles can draw in dozens of combatants. And usually the kites are so high it is impossible to see whom you are fighting, or who has killed you. When a kite...
...America. Because of what we know we are capable of achieving when called upon to achieve it. This is the nation that harnessed electricity and the energy contained in the atom, that developed the steamboat and the modern solar cell. This is the nation that pushed westward and looked skyward. We have always sought out new frontiers and this generation is no different...
...America. Because of what we know we are capable of achieving when called upon to achieve it. This is the nation that harnessed electricity and the energy contained in the atom, that developed the steamboat and the modern solar cell. This is the nation that pushed westward and looked skyward. We have always sought out new frontiers and this generation is no different...
...October 4, 1957, a lonely rocket climbed skyward, slipped those so-called “surly bonds of earth,” and left the desolate Kazakh plain behind. That rocket carried Sputnik, the first satellite launched into space, and the simple beeping signal it beamed back to Earth reverberated through radio receivers into the most distant halls of power, marking the beginning of the space race and sending U.S. policy makers scrambling to close the gap between the United States and Soviet Russia.Consequences of the Soviet launch would not, however, stay within Washington—the resulting effort...