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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions for a Shattered City | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...stale air of Lamont library's fifth floor, a battle rages...

Author: By R.i. Wilson, | Title: Lamont Poetry Board | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James W. Fields, | Title: Reinventing the Calendar | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, | Title: Is Harvard Dining Services SERVING Your Needs? | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: Tea Stop | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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