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...bringing the struggle and anguish of our brothers and sisters into our comfortable homes. Scott Wyman Chico, California, U.S. Even though my wife and I were far away from the tsunami that devastated South Asia, we still felt a jolt, as our daughter, son-in-law and twin 2-year-old granddaughters were on the island of Phuket when the tsunami struck. Anxious hours passed before we learned they were safe. Tears not only of relief but also of sorrow were shed for the many parents who have little to rejoice about. The spontaneous generosity of those who are giving...
...support that is acceptable to both sides." The debate over subsidies is especially heated because the aircraft business is so precarious. Launch costs for a new aircraft can be enormous, with little guarantee that the market will reward innovation. In December 2003, Boeing announced it would build the twin- engine, highly efficient 7E7 - its first new airplane in a decade and its designated aircraft of the future. In contrast to the A380, which is designed to fly lots of people to big hub airports, the smaller (around 220 passengers) 7E7 aims to fly longer distances and to more cities...
...last month filed a lawsuit in Shanghai accusing Chery Automobile Co., the Chinese automaker, of filching production-line blueprints for a compact car, the Chevrolet Spark, which GM says cost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to develop. Chery's car, called the QQ, does indeed look like an identical twin to the Spark and comes in candy colors designed for Chinese women drivers. The main difference is QQ's $3,600 sticker price, a third less than Spark...
...months right after Sept. 11, when smoke was still rising over the ruins of the Twin Towers, there were people ready to write the obituary for skyscrapers. Tall buildings were too inviting as targets for terrorism, too disruptive to the urban fabric and not even particularly profitable, since so much of the rentable floor space was taken up by elevator shafts. The only clients still interested in building them were in nations that wanted a symbol of their arrival as a contender in the global market, mostly in Asia's Pacific Rim. The honor of having the world's tallest...
What Stern means is that it's not just the silhouettes or the altitude that's changing. After Sept. 11, security and safety became much larger issues in the thinking of architects. More lives might have been saved at the Twin Towers if the plaster-wallboard interiors of the exit stairwells had not collapsed, blocking some exit routes. The Trade Center depended on a complicated structural system of interior and exterior steel columns. Many new towers favor superstrong concrete cores that not only brace more firmly against wind--and at 2,000-plus feet, you don't want to sway...