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Already in place is another new and mighty technological widget: the Tuned Mass Damper (TMD), an 800,000-lb. concrete block capable of moving three feet in four directions, which greatly reduces the lightweight building's sway in a gale. Determined to make the building as energy efficient as...
Never better for Vorster's Nationalists, that is; the political arm of the Afrikaners held 123 of the 171 seats in the previous Parliament, and it stands to gain as many as 15 more in the national election on Nov. 30. The opposition parties that traditionally held the loyalty of...
Other Afrikaners talk about the sacrifices that lie ahead. Implicit in these phrases may be a startling notion: that the Afrikaners, short of the long-predicted Armageddon, might conceivably be prepared to hitch up their ox wagons once again and retreat backward toward the old Boer republics and the Cape...
In the mid-1830s thousands of settlers fled British rule by migrating into the interior in ox-drawn wagons. There were bitter fights between the voortrekkers and black tribes migrating from the north in search of fresh grazing land. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal in 1886 led to...
BUT THAT'S ALL pre-Fox plan. Dean Fox took two facts--that the Quad was less popular than the River Houses, and that there were freshmen at the Quad but not at the River--and concluded that no one wanted to live in a House where freshmen were always...