Word: toweritis
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...nothing of her press. There's another contemporary art center in Rome, offices and a factory for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, and a master plan for an enormous science city in Singapore. Her next American project is an art center near the base of Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Okla...
...number of colleges are assigning homework before their freshmen even set foot on campus--mandatory summer reading. The schools typically choose one book that will spark debate, remind freshmen that there is life outside the undergraduate ivory tower--and not be too heavy to make it from the bookshelf to the beach. Here's a look at some books on incoming freshmen's reading lists for this summer. --By Molly Worthen...
...crew encircles it and locks onto it a 9.5-m extension that will take this subterranean search for the mother lode even deeper into the earth. It is a rugged if familiar ballet of industrial labor, repeated daily from a perch halfway up a 65-m-high steel tower. But this time the familiar scene is not taking place on a North Sea rig or in a dusty patch of Saudi desert. Instead, the 2,600-m-long steel drill is boring deep into a picturesque corner of Tuscany, fabled land of Renaissance frescoes and Chianti Classico. And the search...
...Ivory Tower of Babel...
...concept of an institute for advanced study originated in 1930 with the founding of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J., as a small, Ivory Tower refuge for leading scholars to study in an environment without formal courses or curriculum. The IAS is widely known as the oldest and most prestigious institute, boasting four schools, extensive resources and a cadre of famous former members—including Albert Einstein...