Word: steeled
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...difficulty--the near impossibility--of the task. In the same way, the courage of rescue workers and other heroes that day at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon saved countless lives. Like those men and women, we don't need to remake our world so much as to steel our resolve, use our common sense and try our hardest...
...expect a public library to sit quietly with its hands folded, the new Seattle Central Library is not for you. It has a lunging, irregular exterior wrapped in folds of glass covered with a honeycomb of steel. There are hook holes all over it, so the window washers can scale the angled surface like rock climbers. As buildings go, this one manages to look both precarious and enduring, headlong and immemorial. If Picasso ever painted a library, it might look like this...
...future of building got notably sour. Opening this summer is Koolhaas' second Prada store, in Beverly Hills, Calif. And last September saw the debut of his McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology. Another instant icon, it's topped by a massive corrugated-steel tube intended both to muffle the noise of the railway line that passes overhead and to encourage another sound--wow!--from anybody passing...
Once the platforms and interspaces were decided upon, it remained only to arrange them and wrap the irregular stack in a glass skin held within a latticework of steel. That lattice functions as an exterior structural support, reducing the need for interior trusses and columns, which in turn makes possible wide sweeps of free space inside, including an upper-level reading room with views onto Puget Sound...
...last week, saying that consumer prices in March surged at an annualized rate of 6.2%. The news took a toll on the markets: interest rates jumped, stocks slumped. But it's hard to know why anyone was surprised. Before the announcement, prices for raw materials--from soybeans to steel--had been soaring for two years. Wholesale food prices, like those for pork bellies and grains, rose 47% during that period; metals went...