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...Tall Order for Abbas
...completed a financial study of the project for the legislature. Wong's calculations fill in some important gaps. While the public has been invited to give its input on the aesthetics and cultural facilities of the three competing plans, and to compare "plot ratios"-which measure how tall and dense each project will be-no disclosures have been made about the financial details: total cost, expected profits, or what amount will be devoted to the arts. Wong estimates that even after paying for all the museums and theaters, the winning developer could prance off with upwards of $6.7 billion...
Ryann Dekat felt like a petite in a Big and Tall store. Shopping for a new car, she wanted something small, cheap and fuel efficient--the last thing most carmakers want to sell, since the big profits are in gas-guzzling SUVs and sedans with large engines. Test-driving drab cars like the Nissan Sentra left her underwhelmed. Then she spotted the Mazda3, a sporty four-cylinder hatchback launched in 2003. You might think of hatchbacks as wheezy econoboxes from the 1970s. But Dekat, 22, a loan processor from Dallas, liked the Mazda's svelte style and pep; she pictured...
...they were unaware that a powerful earthquake off the coast of Indonesia had triggered a tsunami that would kill more than 155,000. The deadly wave felt like little more than a bump to the Chens because tsunamis don’t develop into tall waves until they approach the shore...
...point scale for measuring crispiness, on which Quaker's Chewy Chocolate Chunk Granola Bars are a 2 and Kellogg's Corn Flakes a 14? What Gladwell is saying in Blink is often less compelling than the facts he uses to back himself up. Who doesn't know that tall, good-looking people get preferential treatment? But Gladwell's analysis of the political career of Warren G. Harding--who was a lousy President but (apparently) a hot, hot man--is mesmerizing...