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Madrid's Burning Building Stands - World Trade Center Falls
The 32-story Windsor building in MadridFEB 15: The 32-story Windsor building in Madrid, Spain caught on fire on Saturday at about 11:20 p.m. and burned for two days. The building was complettely engulfed in flames at one point.

Several top floors collapsed onto lower ones, yet the building is still standing.

Why did the World Trade Center completely collapsed in about a hour and the Madrid building burned for two days and is still standing?

Frank A. Demartini, on-site construction manager for the World Trade Center, spoke of the resiliance of the World Trade Center towers in an interview recorded on January 25, 2001. "The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door -- this intense grid -- and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting".

It is not known what caused the Madrid fire. Was it terrorism?

Most of the Madrid building housed offices of international auditing giant Deloitte, which also lost its offices in the World Trade Centre in the 9/11 attacks.

There are reports the central structure was concrete. The steel was subject to intense heat for many hours before collapsing.

(Free Press International)
 
Helmet for lovers!
The TAO posterFEB 14: Don't be surprised, Chandigarh citizens, if you get an unusual gift on Valentine's Day. The city's Traffic Awareness Organization (TAO), would like each lover to gift a helmet to his beloved instead of flowers. And seek nothing in return but a promise to wear the helmets gifted.

The message has been communicated in a poster titled "A gift from heart to her head…!"

The TAO poster has been issued on the eve of Valentine's Day. "Beauty is what a lover cherishes but an unprotected head in case of an accident may create permanent scars on one's face apart from even taking life ," says president of TAO.

"Love seeks long life for the cupid-struck and helmets can help lovers life a long and injury-free life, he adds.

Interestingly, pollution and SPMs spoil skin but helmet can prevent this. Why a lover will not like to preserve the glow of his beloved's skin and hair, feel lovers.

Love is not dependence, a burden which an incapacitated woman can become because of injuries. To stay afloat in modern competitive life a woman requires protective gears and most importantly for head."

TAO has urged women, who use helmets even while riding pillion, to come forward to promote the cause and become ambassadors of the organization. 

 
US drones hover Iran
The Bush administration has been flying surveillance drones over sovereign Iranian airspace to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect weaknesses in air defenses, according to the Washington Post.

The aerial spying is 'standard' in military preparations for an eventual air attack and is employed as a tool for 'intimidation.'

Curiously, Government officials from Iran, Europe and the U.S. would only speak on the condition of anonymity.

Drones were deployed in April 2004 and again in December and January.

I wonder what Americans would say if Iranian drones violated US airspace.

We don't know if Iran has nuclear weapons. The US has roughly 9,000! (FPI)
 
 

 

 
 
 
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