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Putting aside mind-blowing cost overruns, along with delays at a Chinese steel fabrication plant, engineers and scientists are following the equally mind-blowing construction feats in the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
The blame for Haiti’s staggering death toll from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12—the toll is expected to rise to over 200,000— lies at the feet of that country’s c0nstruction industry, says a Berkeley, Calif. engineer.
A San Francisco environmental historian says that because of Daylight Savings Time the annual Wreath Laying and Commemoration goes off one hour too early, and that it is “a major distortion of historical reality.”
Among the people who saw the effects of an earthquake as big as the Chilean quake of Feb. 27 was none other than Charles Darwin.