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Muhammad the barber went on and on about the best thing to do with the pile of wood he had gathered from digging up tree stumps all last summer: now there was gas, and it wasn't even that cold, so he had all this extra wood on the terrace. Should he sell it, or save it for next year? "Next winter everything will be back to normal, the occupiers are on the way out, it's all signed, and peace is coming," I said, half seriously and half in jest. Everyone stared at me, and a young soldier...
Worse yet, "1970s: The Sequel" has, like most Holly-wood productions, sanitized and sentimentalized that decade. The 1970s revival tells Americans they weren't really just looking for sex--or if they were, it was because they had really gotten into Indian philosophy, They didn't really throw up after binging on booze and pot--or if they did, it didn't feel all that bad. They didn't really vote for Reagan in 1980--or if they did, it was because he confused and manipulated them...
...think that we played better than we expected to," senior middle hitter Chris Wood said. "LIU is definitely the toughest team that we have played...
...were in sync," Wood said. "I think that taking off this weekend helped--it made us think...
STRUCTURAL DESIGN. Structural engineers emphasized two simple guidelines: for houses, flexible wood is better than static brick; and for large buildings, steel is far superior to concrete, which, no matter how much it is reinforced, can crumble like stale cake. "It's quite simple: if you want to be safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks...