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This summer brings the most eco-friendly X Games ever--no small feat for a twice-a-year event that draws 140,000 spectators and uses nearly 1,400 pieces of plywood to make its signature vertical ramp. The action-sports competition, which runs through Aug. 3 and includes in...
Meanwhile, Dickson Despommier, a public-health professor at Columbia University, is pushing a way to get population centers to produce a lot more of the food they consume. His Vertical Farm Project envisions hydroponic skyscrapers that would be as productive as 588 acres (238 hectares) of land. A 21-story...
For those who care less about science-fiction doomsday scenarios than the gnawing sense of dissatisfaction Shyamalan often wrings from his characters, the problems of the central couple are not exactly earth-shaking. They're childless, he's a little exasperated that she's so withdrawn, and she shared an...
A new English-language paperback edition of Parasite Eve comes just in time for summer getaway reading. The editors at Vertical Press haven't weeded out the slew of mistranslations from the original hardcover English edition. But some of these botched phrases - including real puzzlers like "the unreality of a...
Moreover, the house renovation project presents an opportunity to address the College’s noted lack of social space by foregoing the traditional but cumbersome vertical entryways in favor of the more social horizontal hallways, and by revamping communal spaces in house basements and common spaces to include kitchens...