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...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...
Fasulo took off at 5:15 p.m. from Locarno Airport heading to Linate Airport on the outskirts of Milan. Nearly 30 minutes later he radioed the Linate tower saying that he had minor landing gear problems and asked for clearance as he approached from the north. But he ignored subsequent directions from the tower to circle near the airstrip and suddenly turned westward toward downtown. Moments later his altitude dropped suddenly and the plane pierced the building in a perfectly horizontal position, according to witnesses. The day after the crash, one of Fasulo's two sons was quoted...
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...