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...eventful as a totem pole. To satisfy zoning regulations that require upper stories to be set back to admit sunlight to the street, most architects provide a stair-step silhouette. Abraham produced a diagonal slope with angular overhangs, like teeth on a harpoon. His upper stories simultaneously thrust upward and avalanche down. Below that, the director's office is housed in a glass box that juts from the zinc facade...
...post-doctoral fellow in seismology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, said the cause of Saturday’s earthquake is difficult to determine since the majority of the faults in the Northeast are inactive. But he said his preliminary calculations show the quake to be a thrust earthquake caused by compressional stresses...
...charms seem safe enough if the abject failure of its first full moon-style party, modeled on Thailand's island raves, is anything to go by. "Us backpackers have got to make our own fun," said a shaggy type who bounded up to me in Sisavangvong Road and thrust a flyer proclaiming the birth of the Full Mekong Party into my hand. "I'm the Great Disco Dane," he explained, assuring me the party would be "wicked." Around 9 p.m., I ventured down to the sandy strip where the ferries land?to find about 20 people sipping Beer Lao around...
...There were deficiencies in our procedure and in our oversight, absolutely,” said HSPH spokesperson Robin Herman. “We fully agree with the thrust of the OHRP report.” Eleven of the studies were conducted by one researcher—Associate Professor of Medicine Xiping Xu—whose research in China was suspended by HSPH pending an outside audit commissioned by the school’s administrators...
...team downsizing comes in response to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ decision to cut funds to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by $17.1 million this year—part of a $28.5 million budget cut burden thrust upon UMass’ five campuses during the state’s current economic crisis...