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...Congress also resolves to put its money where its mouth is in terms of freer trade. No more tariffs, no more market-molding, no more Jesse Helms coddling the textile farmers back home or Jim Jeffords coddling the dairy farmers. No more tears for Big Steel - when the world moves on, the world moves on, and to stay on top of the global economy as its wealthiest customer and preeminent value-adder, America needs to stay on the cutting edge. Want to help the economically displaced? Send them unemployment benefits, but don't slow the rest of us down...
...MILWAUKEE MUSEUM OF ART ADDITION Throughout Europe, the Spanish engineer-architect Santiago Calatrava is famous for elegant bridges and public buildings that are descendants, in their different ways, of London's 19th century steel-and-glass Crystal Palace, the greenhouse-exhibition space that signaled the beginning of pure engineering as the new form of beauty. For his first completed work in the U.S., Calatrava provided a showstopping new addition for the Milwaukee Museum of Art. His low-slung extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made...
...Milwaukee Museum of Art Addition Throughout Europe, the Spanish engineer-architect Santiago Calatrava is famous for elegant bridges and public buildings that are descendants, in their different ways, of London's 19th century steel-and-glass Crystal Palace, the greenhouse-exhibition space that signaled the beginning of pure engineering as the new form of beauty. For his first completed work in the U.S., Calatrava provided a showstopping new addition for the Milwaukee Museum of Art. His low-slung extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made...
...Still determined, Xiaowei visited a Shanghai surgeon who promised the seemingly impossible: to add 7 cm to her height. The leg surgery would be simple, he said, if brutal. He would saw her shin bones, affix metal braces with 16 steel needles to her legs, then slowly stretch the newly forming bone tissue into a longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched...
...World Trade Center, presumably the next proud symbol of pure American capitalism for the next century, go ahead and build it with American steel - but only if it's the best steel, at the best price, that the world market can offer...