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There are plenty of systems to admire. For one, since the new library is sunk well down into the water table, it sports what the planners call a "triple-level waterproofing system"--complete with its own perimeter drainage system backed up by diesel generators...
...views from the outside windows are generally bleak, since they tend to be dominated by the walls of the pit in which the library is sunk...
Noting that "any new technology brings with it a certain degree of risk," Coleman concluded that the Concorde's prospective benefits were worth the chance. An outright ban, he said, would be a blow to Britain and France, two allies that had sunk $2.8 billion into the Concorde. Further, Coleman claimed that turning down the Concorde "may well be condemning for all time or delaying for decades what might be a very significant technological advance for mankind." Second-generation Concordes, he said, could be quieter and less harmful to the environment...
...photographers' view of these ruins, churches, monuments as defined, standing clearly apart from their surroundings, as objects for a scientific investigation, which, like the photograph, aims to reveal the hidden secrets of the temple, contrasts sharply with Piranesi's mythical vision of Ozymandian monuments, overgrown with vegetation, sunk in the accumulated dust of ages, eroded stone structures are feats of mathematics and engineering; Piranesi's are works of the gods, Cyclopean walls. The eighteenth-century people who infallibly appear in his drawings use the ruins as cow fields (the Forum), houses (the Temple of Vesta), or buttresses for their...
...owns; he is reputed to have invested heavily in industry, agriculture and real estate and to own the tallest office building in the capital city of San José, along with various restaurants, a coffee plantation and interests in newspapers and radio-TV stations. He is known to have sunk more than $2 million into a holding company called San Cristóbal S.A., a chief interest of Former President José ("Pepe") Figueres, a popular figure who is Vesco's leading backer in Costa Rica...