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...evaluate our needs and desires. Great cities are founded upon the grand aspirations of their citizens. In giving constructive imagination to the public, architects fuel speculation as to the very future of civilization, and offer one of the most powerful weapons to counter the covert forces of destruction that surround...
...society that publicly criticizes racism, even as it is privately practiced, interracial relationships still stir up controversy—one doesn’t need to look further than the O.J. Simpson trial to see the social anxieties that commonly surround interracial...
...York City in December, preserves the entire 70-ft.-deep basin as a kind of primordial imprint of the towers. Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails. Libeskind's plan would surround that pit with a force field of angular towers at street level. The workaday world could carry on its business without trampling the memory of the dead...
...Wade, guaranteeing a woman’s right to choose in the United States. The days of back-alley, illegal abortions have been history since 1973, but with an anti-choice president in the White House and an anti-choice Congress behind him, those past horrors could once again surround us. The burden has fallen to today’s generation of men and women to make sure we’re still celebrating choice in another 30 years...
...Lowe, groundkeeper at Claremont High School in California, which switched to FieldTurf last year, says players have had fewer injuries on the synthetic field. FieldTurf has become so popular that other companies, including Southwest, the producer of AstroTurf, have brought out similar products. Many of the new synthetic surfaces surround the grass blades with an all-rubber base, which, some companies say, makes a field even cushier than the sand-and-rubber mix of FieldTurf. For players used to the hard knocks of competition, the future could have a soft landing...