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STRUCTURAL DESIGN. Structural engineers emphasized two simple guidelines: for houses, flexible wood is better than static brick; and for large buildings, steel is far superior to concrete, which, no matter how much it is reinforced, can crumble like stale cake. "It's quite simple: if you want to be safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks...
...stale air of Lamont library's fifth floor, a battle rages...
...seems fitting to discuss the issue of academic calendar reform. This issue is being considered even now by administrators and members of the Undergraduate Council. But the debate isn't a new one, and the reforms have not been forthcoming in the past because the issue grows more stale with each passing year...
Other first-years lament perennial problems, such as long lines which they often cause their food to be cold and stale by the time they sit down to eat it, they...
...Black-smith House, unlike that served at the Four Seasons and the Ritz, is bagged--so it picks up the smell of its packaging and goes stale quickly...