Word: towered
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...Hakim Murad, uncovered a plan to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. And as long ago as 1994, in an incident that is well known among terrorism experts, French authorities foiled a plot by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group to fly an airliner into the Eiffel Tower. "Since 1994," says a French investigator into al-Qaeda cases, "we should all have been viewing kamikaze acts as a possibility for all terrorist hijackings." But if Rice's account is accurate, nobody significant in the Bush Administration...
...hammocks, Nuts Huts makes an ideal base for the leisurely exploration of Bohol Island's southern attractions, like the San Pedro Cathedral in nearby Loboc. The graceful 18th century architecture is impressive, but the real surprise is an unfinished highway overpass headed straight for the bell tower. Someone obviously screwed up: had the road been completed as planned, the cathedral would have had to be demolished. The truncated overpass has yet to be knocked down...
Each week our graphics team weaves art and words with such skill and clarity that engineers could almost use their images to raise a sunken sub or keep the Tower of Pisa from falling. This year TIME has won eight Malofiej Infographics Awards, including a rare Gold prize for "Raising the Kursk." The Society for News Design, which gives the prizes, cited chief Jackson Dykman and his staff...
...neighborhoods that ring Harvard’s Cambridge campus, few have suffered from the University’s ugly and misguided building schemes more than Riverside. It has been forced to bear such architectural atrocities as Mather House and Peabody Terrace, which tower over the low-set homes of the neighborhood and block any view of the Charles...
ITALY Echo of Sept. 11 When an aircraft crashed into the 30-story Pirelli tower in the center of Milan, many feared a repeat of Sept. 11. Initial investigations revealed that minutes before the crash, 67-year-old Luigi-Gino Fasulo, pilot of the four-seater tourist plane, had radioed air traffic control that he had landing-gear problems. Fasulo and two women died and 29 other people were injured. "This had nothing to do with the haunting images of the Twin Towers," said Interior Minister Claudio Scajola. "Sure, tragedy struck, but it could have been worse...