Nearby, the Seattle Central Library (1000 Fourth Avenue) is an astonishing glass and steel construction by Rem Koolhaas.

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The firm, which also suffered a roof collapse at an office block in central Seattle, sent home about 70, 000 factory workers.

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In a building not far from downtown, organizers literally mapped out about a dozen areas where they planned to choke off central Seattle so that delegates could not reach their meetings.

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Central Seattle in the early 1960s was not a land of easy opportunity for Delno and Ida Raines, or for the six children they raised in the house that Delno built from the remains of one the highway department planned to demolish.

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And it's not like she's been living in Seattle or Singapore: She moved to the U.S. and Central Park West from Europe in 1939, and has lived within blocks of the museum for the past 73 years.

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Central Oregon is one of the last great secrets, and still a bargain compared with inflated California and Seattle prices.

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