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...futures markets were rising before the explosion, and actually continued to creep up as the flames leapt from the tower - initial speculation on CNBC speculated that the plane crash was accidental. Then the import of the catastrophe became apparent, and the futures plunged until the trading day was called off. (The New York Stock Exchange building was unharmed, but dust and debris from the WTC collapses flew far enough to endanger anyone who stood outside.) Perhaps the only reassurance available was the news that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan was on a trip in Switzerland and safe from the concurrent destruction...
...over and above just selling a sign," Meis says. At the Staples Center in Los Angeles, NBBJ created exhibition space for Toyota and let United Airlines decorate the club-seat corridors. For the Milwaukee Brewers, NBBJ pitched Miller Brewing Co. the idea of incorporating its logo on a clock tower. "That becomes their blimp shot," he says...
MOST LIKELY TO BURST A VESSEL HyperSonic XLC, Kings Dominion, Va. A pneumatic launcher blasts riders 0-80 m.p.h. in 1.8 sec. and shoots them over a 165-ft. vertical tower with G-forces that even astronauts don't endure...
...global forum on racism and its remedies was never going to be a buy-the-world-a-Coke lovefest, but it's in danger of descending into a deeply weird Tower of Babel experience. Even the Middle East conflict, which has come to dominate the spotlight at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, produces its own strangely dissonant images: Hasidic Jews from New York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary...
...later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot-ten. "Do you really mean the Chams once had an empire?" asks an incredulous 69-year-old Tran Dinh Liu, an ethnic Cham Hroi farmer who lives less than an hour from a 12th-century Cham tower near Qui Nhon. "I don't know any history of the nation except the revolution," he says, glancing at the communist People's Committee official who is in attendance...