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...worked up. When Terry Bradshaw and Mean Joe Greene were winning Super Bowls in the '70s, the Steelers were America's Other Team, and like the Dallas Cowboys, they attracted fans nationwide. That spirit is back. When the Steelers played the New York Giants in December, Giants Stadium was covered in black and gold. It could almost have passed for a Pittsburgh home game...
Piano and Foster have been building tall for much of their careers, but until recently many of the others worked closer to the ground. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable...
...slum houses and bazaar shops to open a new freeway through the city center. Now that the floods have been stemmed, the city is spreading beyond the dikes where handsome villas are rising for the new, well-to-do middle classes ... France's Le Corbusier will build a sports stadium, and 88-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright returned enthusiastically from Baghdad last week ready to create an opera house "like nothing in the world" on an island in the Tigris ... Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "We feel Iraq is potentially if not right now the brightest spot in the area...
...game unfolded, an operator conferred with the spotter in the stadium to gauge the placement of the first-down marker. He then punched the yardage into PVI's vMagic software program, which lets the operator preview the lines on a screen. After a quick review, he hit a green button on a square control pad, putting the lines on the air. Said PVI senior systems operator Alan Bress: "It's like playing a video game at this point...
...million Last week's auction price for the bat Babe Ruth used in 1923 to hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium...