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Stainless steel bathroom stalls in the Science Center as well as Emerson and Robinson Halls have since made sex in the bathrooms a chillier, more slippery endeavor, guards and police officers...
Such realizations punctured some of the early forecasts of a silver lining in Kobe's tragedy. Even as heavily hit manufacturers like Kobe Steel had to absorb further jolts on the stock market, construction-industry issues were hot prospects on the Tokyo exchange. After the Nikkei index's steep dip early last week, bidding on these shares helped the exchange recover 318 points by the close of trading on Friday. But the boomlet of hope in the ashes was not enough to convince more sober heads...
Older Japanese homes are often perched a half-meter or so off the ground on wooden frames. ``It's as if the house is standing on stilts,'' says Scawthorn. ``In a quake it collapses, and the house comes down.'' Well-placed plywood braces, combined with steel-expansion bolts anchoring the house in a cement foundation, would keep the base intact...
...traditional Japanese house, Scawthorn says, the first floor lacks interior walls that could help support the weight of the second floor, as they would for a Western home; in Japan rooms are frequently separated by flimsy, sliding shoji screens. Scawthorn's recommendation: place a few steel braces along the exterior walls, and reinforce one or two interior walls so they can help carry the weight of the second story. ``Last of all,'' he says, ``I would take those heavy tiles off the roof and replace them with the lighter-weight plastic ones available in Japan now.'' All told, the work...
...quake had clearly wrought damage on a grand scale to a port that handled 2.7 million containers last year, including 31% of all exports to the U.S. While shipping lines rerouted their cargo via other ports, Kobe-area manufacturers of products from steel to flat-panel computer displays studied ways to get their goods on the road. Commented Yasuo Iwamoto, marketing chief for the Kobe Port Authority: ``The fact is that Kobe was the container center for Japan. In the long term, I doubt that other ports can take the load we divert to them...