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...Mayne, 65, started his career in 1971 teaching at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, Cal., but in short order he was fired with six other faculty whose ideas didn't fit the institutional mold. The ousted teachers decided to start their own school, which became the Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-Arc, a school with an emphasis on experimental approaches. That was in 1972, the same year Mayne started Morphosis with another architect, Jim Stafford. There was a long lean period. But in 1999 Mayne produced his breakthrough building, the Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona...
...What They're Naming in Australia: The decade is nearly over, and the world still hasn't reached a consensus on what to call the 2000s. But an Australian website has gotten a head start on naming the 2010s. In a contest that garnered more than 3,500 entries--including "Tenties" and Teenies"--News.com.au awarded nearly $2,000 to the person who suggested "One-ders." After the dreary decade we've suffered through, the judges said, the moniker's "bright-eyed optimism" was a welcome change...
...Toys Not to Buy" this holiday season is Baby Glutton, a doll made in Spain that makes sucking sounds and comes with a halter top for little girls - with flowers as nipples - and the tagline "Because you shouldn't have to wait until you have breasts before you start breast-feeding your baby." (See the top 10 dubious toys...
...Since a similar problem in 2002 was resolved by "winterizing" the locomotives so that snow couldn't get into the engine blocks, Eurostar officials were guardedly optimistic that the same method would fix the problem this time. However, even if the trains do start running again, anger over the fiasco won't melt as quickly as the thinning French snow. (See the worst business deals...
...measure, allowing them to screen out suspected LTTE fighters hiding among the civilian population. Fonseka says he would have handled the process more effectively and warns of the consequences of failing to identify lurking LTTE cadres. "If there is a single terrorist act, the army will have to again start searching these people, putting up roadblocks, checkpoints, raiding houses in the night, cordon and searches," Fonseka says. "The harassment of the people will begin again...