It's one thing to capture the elastic vitality of Saarinen's winged TWA Terminal or the swirling ramparts at Wright's Marin County Civic Center, but to uncover an equivalent dynamism at SOM's Connecticut General Life Insurance headquarters in a bland park in Bloomfield, Conn.

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U.S. pressure on Vietnam can be greatly enhanced by a corresponding campaign to get the Soviet Union to reverse its reduce its support for Hanoi and its own, relentless military build-up in the region, notably at the Cambodian port of Kompong Som.

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Then, guests travel to Angkor Wat, taking in spectacular aerial views of Prasat Kravan, Srah Srang, Pre Rup, Ta Som and East Mebon temples on the 45-minute flight.

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Super cities are on the rise in Asia as China announced plans to construct a mega-city the size of Switzerland and SOM unveiled a masterplan for a cutting-edge green tech city for Hanoi.

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The eBay Green Team is an informal group that has worked on everything from eliminating Styrofoam cups in the cafeteria (a project my own team of environmentally active students is trying to accomplish at Yale SOM) to pushing for green buildings.

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