THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching. So he fixed it.
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Elliott Leyton on Virginia Tech
Thursday, April 19, 2007
globeandmail.com: School shootings By the way, the 800,000 tutsi and hutu victims of the genocide in Rwanda were killed primarily with knives and machetes. And if you want to kill a lot of people but don’t have a gun, there are many other ways to do it: derail a train, start a fire, drive a […]
