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...Building on Diversity I was recently quoted in your story "Soaring Ambitions" [May 3] and felt it necessary to clarify the context of my remark about the current architectural boom in China. Emerging cultures like China often look to foreign firms to provide expertise and vision, and to lend weight to their bid for global presence. As such, they are very open to new ideas. The important point to emphasize is that plenty of these foreign firms are building remarkably innovative and responsible buildings, as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has done for many decades, and that this represents an extraordinary opportunity...
...planning-obsessed Korzeniowski, "it actually starts a week before." The 50-km race is so grueling, he says, that it will punish those who don't prepare fully during that last week, from tracking the weather in preparation for the heat and humidity to making race weight (the 1.68-m-tall Korzeniowski's is a trim 62 kg) to readying the right electrolyte-replacement drinks (he'll consume 4 L of those and 4 L of water). "There are no surprises," he says. "If I don't win, there was something wrong with my plan of action." One last gold...
Though Hobeika normally competes at the 112 lb. category—she recently took third at the U.S. National Championships in this bracket—this is not an Olympic weight class, and she has had to move...
...while Hobeika admits that the gain in weight has eliminated the pain from competing, the step up to the larger weight class has made it so that all of her competitors are bigger as well, and Hobeika admits that her chances of making the Olympic team are slim...
Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, chair of the Allston life task force, said yesterday that while some of the options may seem unlikely, the committee only put its weight behind plans that were...