World’s next tallest building in the works
The skyline over Wuhan, China, is, at last, due to become world-famous, after the British architecture firm Chetwoods unveiled its “Phoenix Towers” building project, a monumental undertaking expected...
View ArticleRaccoon lands in a jam
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2014/06/18/peanut-butter-jar-lands-raccoon-in-a-jam
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Student rescued from giant German vagina
(Photo courtesy of gawker.com) There is a giant, marble vagina on the grounds of Germany’s Tubingen University Institute of Microbiology. If you are an American exchange student and someone dares you...
View ArticleLandscaper killed after falling into wood chipper
Police say a landscaper is dead after being dragged through a wood chipper in South Florida: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/24/landscaper-killed-by-wood-chipper-florida_n_5525171.html
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Woman on trial for chaining herself to construction equipment
Elisabeth Leja (Photo courtesy of NewsOK) Nearly a year and a half after a Norman, Okla., woman chained herself to construction equipment to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline, her day in court on a...
View ArticleWhat to do with that old concrete pipe?
An enterprising hotelier in Henan – a province in east-central China – has created an unusual retreat where guests go to sleep in a reused slice of industrial tubing:...
View ArticleIf it’s broke, don’t fix it
A massive sinkhole that swallowed eight prized sports cars at the National Corvette Museum has become such a popular attraction that officials want to preserve it — and may even put one or two of the...
View ArticleIllegal procedure: National Guard builds football field in wrong spot
Selectmen in a small Maine town authorized the final payment Tuesday night for corrections made in the area of a new youth football field, part of which was built in the wrong place by the Maine Army...
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When real estate flips you the finger
The cost of land in the nation’s hottest urban neighborhoods is only going up, and that has developers building up, higher, even when the new construction might not fit in with the old:...
View Article‘Table by the window please’
How do the ultra rich live in China? Sometimes, they spend thousands of dollars to eat a fancy dinner suspended in the sky from a crane:...
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