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What impressed senior writer Richard Lacayo, who wrote the opening essay and profiled architect Greg Lynn, was the evangelical zeal of his subject, Lynn, who has a degree in philosophy as well as one in architecture. "He's a very animated talker, really a proselytizer." Senior editor Belinda Luscombe found herself fascinated with the social consciousness of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has made ingenious use of cardboard to build elegant homes for refugees. Senior reporter Daniel S. Levy writes about landscape architect Julie Bargmann, who turns industrial wastelands into places of beauty while preserving their gritty heritage. Says...
...Pentagon officials pledged to work even harder to make the next test, set for the fall, a success. But the failure of two proven technologies in a single test--the interceptor basically never turned itself on--will probably dampen any Clinton ardor for an operational system by 2005. Congressional zeal for the shield, however, is irrepressible...
With little money but plenty of boyish zeal, Pregracke began to enlarge upon his ambitions. He hunted up a couple of outboard motors, the barges, two aluminum runabouts and an Army-surplus bridge-building boat, which he equipped with a John Deere combine cab to make a sort of tugboat. He raised a sinking houseboat, made it seaworthy, assembled an eager young crew and hit the river--vowing to spend his summers on the water until the job was done...
...shut down, as they did as late as 1991, they now beg us to move quickly on to the genomes of the mouse, the rat and the dog. Equally important, we note that no other big science project, save possibly the Manhattan Project, has been carried out with such zeal for the common good. In sharing their sequences so freely and so quickly, members of our genome community have little time left to promote their scientific reputations...
...Gore tried to act surprised Thursday when reporters rushed him with news that one more Justice Department official wants Janet Reno to appoint a special counsel to investigate Gore's 1996 fund-raising zeal. He shouldn't have bothered - a yawn would have been a more genuine response. Sure, the barking is a little louder this time, because Gore is getting closer and closer to November and Reno is getting lonelier and lonelier in her refusal to farm out her investigation to an outside office. But by now, Gore knows the baying of these hounds all too well...