Word: toronto
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After a long recession in the 1990s, for much of the past seven years Toronto has enjoyed an enormous building boom. Downtown is stuffed with new corporate headquarters. Around the shore of Lake Ontario the skyline is bristling with condo towers. Nearly all the construction from these years has been fairly conventional, though - this is still a city where the developer's box rules. But in one part of town, the rules have changed. On June 2 the venerable Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will officially open a new addition designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind in his most implacable...
...international community do more to bring awareness to the current situation? -Kolden Simmonds, Toronto In this country there has been a large grassroots movement that has tendrils in many different areas of influence. It's not just confined to government. Hopefully, the world will say this is something that we will not let stand and that we want to be stewards of humanity...
...hour after the draft.”If he does not go, the back hopes to find himself in some team’s camp to earn his pro-status that way. If all else fails he may eventually end up back in his home province playing for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL. And where does that leave Dawson this Saturday and Sunday? In his room, by himself, glued to the t.v., waiting.“I know some guys throw parties or are around lots of family and that type of thing,” Dawson says...
...seems to me we should not forget universal values,” said Maki, speaking in a packed Gund Auditorium at the GSD. Maki’s projects now include Tower 4 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, the new United Nations building in Toronto, and the Media Lab Extension at MIT, among others. In Tokyo alone, he has built 30 works, including the Spiral, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the TV Asahi. “His work is grounded in modernist tradition, but it is always in its time fresh and contemporary...
...baseball's economics thrive, more teams can afford high-profile players to fill the DH spot: the Toronto Blue Jays can sign Frank Thomas, who hit 39 home runs for Oakland last season, to a two-year, $18 million contract, and Oakland can give Mike Piazza one-year, $8.5 million deal to replace him. The result is a concentration of DH talent the game has never seen before. "It's unusual," says veteran Texas Rangers scout Mel Didier. "You usually have two or three of those Hall of Fame caliber guys, but seven or eight...