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...same conditions that exist in a number of Japan's crowded, fast-growing cities. The normal method for subway construction, now under way in Tokyo and Sapporo as well as Osaka, is to excavate along street routes, then cover the tunnels with concrete-and-steel slabs. While workmen install the tracks below, vehicles can move over the slabs. But the combination of digging, construction and traffic vibrations is frequently too much for utility lines, and cracks appear. The trapped gas that caused last week's explosions apparently came from three wide cracks later discovered at the construction site...
...positive transparencies one behind the other in a box, then lights them from behind to create eerie deep spaces. Vancouver's 25-year-old Michael DeCourcy prints high-contrast images of waves, pebbles and flying birds on the sides of cardboard boxes, then has them stacked up by workmen in whatever arrangement they choose. Vacuum molding enables Californians Robert Brown and James Pennuto to transform aerial photographs of rugged terrain into three-dimensional centour maps. The simplest work of all is Jerry McMillan's Torn Bag: a paper bag ripped open to reveal a delicate woodland landscape printed...
...students. The bank's $275,000 Isla Vista branch was burned to the ground last month during a rampage that began on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. Bank officials fear that they may smell smoke again. Nonetheless, they decided not to be intimidated, and workmen erected a $55,000 prefabricated building next to the rubble. Last week the branch was back in business, which is, ironically, mainly that of serving students at the university. So that they can stay in school, some 1,600 students have taken $1,500,000 in loans from the bank...
...Hugh Hutchinson, wife of a retired Air Force colonel, ordered a self-cleaning oven for her new Atlanta town house. Workmen jammed the oven into a wall opening that had been cut for a smaller appliance, thereby bending the oven out of shape. They removed it and more carefully installed another that turned out to have a defective thermostat. A repairman pulled out the thermostat and broke it. He summoned a colleague, who arrived with a new thermostat that was 15 inches too short. The two procured yet another thermostat, spent an afternoon trying to install it, and after much...
...Will. Pozzuoli's plight is apparent everywhere. Walls and roofs have cracked. Dozens of buildings have been declared unsafe, including a hospital, a police station and the city hall. The waterfront has risen so far above the Bay of Naples that workmen finally had to chop away huge chunks of the stone wharf before ferries could conveniently dock again. The elegant Roman ruin known as the Temple of Serapide, standing in the midst of a small waterfront lagoon created by ancient sinking, now is higher out of the water than ever before in the memory of Pozzuolians. The hardest...