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STRUCTURAL DESIGN. Structural engineers emphasized two simple guidelines: for houses, flexible wood is better than static brick; and for large buildings, steel is far superior to concrete, which, no matter how much it is reinforced, can crumble like stale cake. "It's quite simple: if you want to be safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks...
Earthquakes tend to exert greater force horizontally than vertically, usually twice as much or more. What seems to have been unusual in the Northridge quake -- which seismologists now said may have struck with two successive pulses -- was a superior vertical force. This caused some buildings that would have survived back-and-forth swaying to be subverted at their foundations. Accordingly, experts are looking at futuristic designs that will allow buildings to adapt to such tremulous variations. Japan, for example, has equipped buildings with computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward...
...tawdry wrangling in what now seems like the all-tabloid media. Maids and chauffeurs, lissome lads and their parents fed their accusations of misconduct or declarations of support to the avid press. Tracking the story was a full-time job for many newshounds -- 250 littered the lawn of the Superior Court building in Santa Monica last week to hear the announcement of the epochal compromise -- and for the two squads of lawyers. The main attorneys got high marks for their work. "Feldman publicized, publicized, publicized, and then got the big settlement," says New York City attorney Raoul Felder. "Cochran...
...wrong. I don't doubt that Harvard played hard last night. Its defense and rebounding were superior to Yale's in many ways...
Wert present Longstreet as an extremely skillful military leader. He describes Longstreet as a general who sought to win through superior organization and the conservation of his own troops. In contrast to stonewall Jackson, Longstreet did not usually attempt bold and daring attacks. While not achieving stunning victories like Jackson, he did not put his army in as much danger and still was extremely successful in battle...