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Olympic 'nopes' beat out hope in Chicago

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The announcement that Chicago, Illinois, will not host the 2016 Olympic Games took the hopeful wind out of many in the Windy City. But for almost half of the city's dwellers, the International Olympic Committee's decision was winning news.

If approved, construction could begin in July.In the meantime, preservationists and architecture scholars are urging UC Irvine officials to reconsider."It is embarrassing to me as a UC professor that a UC campus would consider such a move," said Thomas Hines, professor of history and architecture at UCLA."It's not a campus with that many distinguished buildings, and this certainly is one."The move also puzzled Richard Weinstein, professor of architecture at UCLA.In June, UCLA awarded Gehry a medal for lifetime achievement, the university's highest honor."This is somebody that the University of California has singled out as someone of international stature and significance," Weinstein said. That strikes some scientists as overly lax."We are at the beginning of this industrial revolution," said Dr. He's got Brand playing at an MVP level, because Brand has got confidence in the guy who's got the ball."Brand was selected last week as a Western Conference reserve for the All-Star game. But don't expect the infamously neurotic director to sound happy about it."I just hope people come to see it ...," Allen said with a shrug at the after-party.

But their answer could merely reflect second thoughts about the ordering of multiple authors in a published paper -- contentious among scientists but rarely a significant ethical issue.Yale University science historian Daniel J. This year's award is $1.3 million.In the early 1900s, most winners hailed from Europe. I recounted this in my follow-up column last week, which prompted several cinephiles to urge that a clarification was needed.The Academy Award-winning 1962 epic based on the life of T.E. Joannides dutifully scribbles it on his ever-expanding to-do list."When you're an athlete, most people think you don't know or care anything about design," Johnson says.

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