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...Instead, he glimpsed something horrifying: a speeding truck was hurtling toward him, the driver wrestling with the wheel as the vehicle skidded over the slick tarmac. Raja vaulted to safety over a steel road divider just as the truck plowed into the other bikers. Four were killed instantly and a dozen were injured. "All I got was a cut from the hitting the divider," Raja recalled the next day. "The others never saw the truck coming. They didn't have a chance...
...exploit it. That was no easy task. In winter, the shallow waters of this part of the Caspian turn into ice floes that - carried by high winds - can crush conventional offshore rigs. So Agip, the operating arm of Italy's ENI charged with developing the field, built concrete-and-steel islands from which to drill. Even more daunting, Kashagan oil lies below the spawning grounds of the Caspian's beluga sturgeon, the sole source of world-renowned beluga caviar. So Agip is making sure no waste material from its drilling is discharged into the Caspian Sea, and has employed...
...Gormley's $A500,000 Inside Australia sculpture project. For the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, the Englishman digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found at the lake. What we get is a town reduced to its bare bones - "boobs" and all. (By drastically slenderizing his subjects, Gormley makes these and other intimate appendages protrude like sausages on sticks.) But if outsiders care to linger with these Insiders - and the roadhouse...
...artists are. He couldn't be him and not be a bit different from everybody else, could he? That angel he's got in England - that's just mind-boggling, the size of that goddamn thing." In 1995, the Turner Prize?winning artist erected a 22-m-high steel angel with wings the span of a jumbo jet's on a hill in northern England. But that was nothing compared to the logistics of Lake Ballard...
...defensive standpoint, structural strength, even more so than fire safety, is the most important consideration for tall buildings. "A square is not a geometrically stable shape," says Childs. "A triangle is stable because it has a diagonal." The Trade Center towers fell because intense fires eventually melted their interior steel. But their structural systems permitted both towers to remain standing after the initial impact of massive jetliners. So for the new 52-story headquarters of the New York Times, the construction of which will soon begin in Manhattan, the architect Renzo Piano agreed to reinforce the connections joining columns...