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...both sides of the highway: the TV images and newspaper pictures didn't prepare me for this mutilated landscape. The epicenter of the earthquake lies in Gujarat's western-most region, where the cotton fields of Saurashtra give way to the dusty plains of the rann, an 18,000-sq-km expanse that once was a marshland on the shores of the Arabian Sea but is now practically desert. The sparse vegetation is more brown than green. This inhospitable terrain is home to the Kutchi people, former nomads renowned for their hardiness. They, along with Gujaratis from the interior, have...
...estate sector. Desperate, city planners offered a raft of incentives for local companies and foreign banks to relocate to Pudong. Then, in Shanghai proper, they began tearing down old row houses in one of the city's few remaining historic neighborhoods to make way for a giant 230,000 sq m park. Many of the dislocated families are being forced to move 90 minutes away from town into the glut of new suburban housing. Certainly, Shanghai needs green space, but couldn't a less historic district have been leveled...
...series of connected igloos covering 10,000 sq. ft., the hotel is but a few minutes' walk from the Manoir Montmorency, once home of Queen Victoria's father, and the mighty waterfalls that have drawn visitors for hundreds of years. There is nothing flimsy about the building, as it's composed of 4,750 tons of compressed snow and ice. Its domed ceilings are 16 ft. at their peak; its walls are 7-ft. thick. In the hotel, an ice chandelier shimmers over world-class ice sculptures of various subjects, including animals, an igloo and Inuit as they go about...
...Harvard has hired HNTB Corp., the firm that built an 83,000 sq. foot recreation center for Northeastern University in 1996, to do a complete analysis of the athletic and recreational space owned by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Because metals are especially valuable, Hewlett-Packard mines its own. Step inside its 200,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in Roseville, Calif. (which it runs with partner MicroMetallics), and you will see computers stacked three stories high. A hulking blue machine swallows PCs and mainframes whole, grinds them up and a few minutes later spits them out in quarter-size pieces. A system of magnets, screens and electrical currents separates out aluminum and steel, while the remaining mixed metals go to Noranda Inc., a copper smelter in Quebec. The metal scrap HP produces by the ton has a higher percentage...