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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left a D-shaped crater about 60 ft. wide, 150 ft. long and between 10 and 30 ft. deep. Although apparently no radiation had leaked, 14 workers emerged with broken bones and lacerations. Craters from previous underground nuclear tests pock the desert floor elsewhere on the 1,350-sq.-mi. site. But officials said they had had no reason to expect such a result in the mesa because it is made up of hardened volcanic ash and granite. In the past 20 years, the Government has exploded 45 nuclear devices with no ill effects in the tunnels bored under...
...concluded that a thorough revamping of the museum was possible without changing any of the existing architecture. The key: the creation of new space underground, a solution that, in various forms, had been urged before by other architects. Pei's plan calls for an extensive, 750,000-sq.-ft. subterranean level, including a grand entrance hall, shops, restaurants, audiovisual theaters, storage spaces and a parking area...
...Little Olympic Village" is what insiders call the nerve center of ABC's massive operation. The $70 million concrete broadcast center, set on Sarajevo's main street, is a 60,000-sq.-ft. marble-floored palace of technology. Two control rooms, one with a wall of 70 flickering TV monitors, relay pictures from rinks and slopes around the city. In addition, there are ten editing cubicles and 36 Ampex VTR-30 videotape machines, which can play three hours of tape, then rewind it in 90 seconds. Snaking through the building are 150 miles of cable. Designed and constructed...
...been moderately wealthy for several years before his half-billion-dollar windfall. Now he complains that "going public was probably the worst thing that happened to me. My private life became my public life. It's like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter. He uses the helicopter to make short hops...
...when local temperatures typically hover at 20° or 30°F. Still, the designers of the ingenious heating system, Henry Eggert and Howard McKew of Shooshanian Engineering Associates of Boston, are confident that teeth will not chatter nor pipes freeze. Indeed, they insist, the eight-story, 880,000-sq.-ft., redbrick Transportation Building will stay a comfortable 72°F all year round...