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Oct 24, 2009
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New Vision for Urban Life Needs to Integrate Planning with Design

“The world is too small and the issues too large for architectural firms not to become aware of and involved in them. Teaming with the planning disciplines to succeed in this century will be necessary to solve major issues. Transportation, urban design, environmental planning, economic and community planning disciplines are all key in the next generation of architectural work.”

- Phil Enquist

Aug 17, 2009
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There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection

If this is true, why isn’t this being announced during every other commercial break?

Barton added: “We don’t want [PEP] to simply become like the morning-after pill, because it gets expensive.”

The CDC expresses a similar concern, advising that “PEP is not a substitute for abstinence, mutual monogamy, consistent and correct condom use, use of sterile needles to inject drugs and other behaviors that can help avoid HIV exposure in the first place.”

…what?

Jul 23, 2009
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How they do it.

(via snusings)

“We will never use the new metro if it’s not segregated,” he tells me, referring to the state-of-the-art underground system being built in neighbouring Dubai. “We will never sit next to Indians and Pakistanis with their smell,” his wife explains.”

“We need slaves,” my friend says. “We need slaves to build monuments. Look who built the pyramids - they were slaves.”

Jul 5, 2009
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