Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family-run Durst Organization, prefers to be called environmentally responsible. "I don't like the term green," he says. "Any building, after all, is environmentally disruptive." His latest disruption is a 48-story glass-and-concrete tower that looms over Times Square. It boasts such eco-conscious features as solar-energy panels, on-site electrical generation, internal waste chutes to ease recycling, huge low-glare windows that reduce artificial lighting needs, pumps to circulate fresh air, and nontoxic building materials...
...couldn't do all he wanted to. Financial considerations contributed to cutbacks in the number of solar panels and non-polluting fuel-cell power generators. Nonetheless, Durst has drawn a nod from environmental advocates. "This is a good first effort," says Joseph Romm, executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions in Washington. "The skyscraper is the symbol of American architecture, and Four Times Square has changed the way we think about them...
...instrumental in the discovery and subsequent research of the Kuiper Belt, which scientists believe is the source of short source comets. The belt of nearly 70,000 "trans-Neptunian" objects is believed to hold many clues to the formation of the solar system...
...there Lieserl's life was poignantly short. According to Zackheim, the little girl died at 21 months after a bout of scarlet fever. Zackheim even gives the date of her death--Sept. 15, 1903, when Vojvodina was darkened by a solar eclipse, the sort of celestial ballet between sun and moon that would later provide the world with the first proof of the correctness of Einstein's radical new ideas about time and space...
Water, water, everywhere ?- it?s not just a theory anymore. Astronomers have cracked open a meteorite that dates back 4.5 billion years ?- to the birth of the solar system ?- and found tiny droplets of seawater, still in liquid form and capable of answering one of astronomy?s big questions: Was Earth born with water, or was water thrust upon it? Some scientists say water was created on Earth by happy circumstance, but others insist that it was delivered on comets and meteorites ?- and therefore might have nurtured life elsewhere. "It?s no real surprise that there would be water left...