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Currently, the chilled water plant is expanding from 8,000 to 13,000 tonnage. To put this into perspective, Hawkes says a typical window air-conditioning unit in a bedroom is half a ton...
...part of her project, Merriman said she plansto dig a 6-by-6 foot hole five feet deep inwhichever space she uses. Over this she willsuspend a transparent box containing 25 prostheticlegs from a 50,000-ton hydraulic crane, finallylowering the box into the hole and covering itwith earth...
What the Thracians did leave behind, though, was gold and silver by the ton, expertly and exquisitely worked into jewelry, drinking vessels, urns and other objects. Many of these treasures have been recovered during the past quarter-century from digs all over the Balkans, and now, for the first time, people in the U.S. have a chance to see some of them firsthand. An exhibition titled "Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians" made its debut in St. Louis and opens next week at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; in July it will travel to San Francisco...
...eyes!"; there are dozens of shy creatures--Waldo-beasts, if you will--waiting to be discovered by the visitor who is visually acute. Look hard for the gray elephant trying to tuck herself behind the grayish rock. Flick a peek to one side and catch a pair of two-ton white rhinos who seem to have sleepy-mean eyes to butt the tram (hatari!). And don't miss the gawky East African crowned cranes off to the right. The driver turns on a radio, a sweet Swahili tune (Hapa Dunianai by the Voices of Celebration) wafts through...
...Crimson dispatched Brown with relative ease, but it was a significant win nonetheless, especially with a huge game coming up against No. 2 Prince-ton this weekend in Cambridge...