In Accident's Wake
Parking Garage Due to Open in September |
| By Rich McManus |
Multi-level parking garage 9, a six-story structure
with room for 936 vehicles, is due to open in September after a
construction delay prompted by the collapse of a section of parking
deck, which killed a worker at the facility last Nov. 29. A review
of the incident, conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, is due soon, but the evidence indicates that there
were no design or construction flaws in the project; human error
was almost certainly the cause of the fatality.
“We got a quality project (from lead contractor Coakley Williams Construction Inc.),” said
Leonard Taylor, director of the Office of Research Facilities, “but we just had an awful
disaster.”
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| NLM's 'Turning the Pages' Goes Online |
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Prosthetic hand from the book Oeuvres |
Have you ever come across a beautiful old book
locked away in a glass case in a library and wanted to leaf through
it? Now, you can — virtually — from anywhere in the
world, using a computer and web browser.
Using the new, free, online version of “Turning the Pages” (http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/intro.htm),
viewers can flip through three treasured books from the 16th century
with a click of their computer mouse.
Actually, the National Library of Medicine is taking a page — pun
intended — from its successful program that allows viewers
to turn the pages of rare books virtually, via a touchscreen monitor,
at kiosks at its Bldg. 38 headquarters.
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