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Museum Serene Temple of Green
The Grand Rapids Art Museum demonstrates that elegance and environmentalism are not incompatible. Its concrete, glass, and aluminum skin houses three stacked gallery towers with squared-off skylights hovering above. Inside the $75 million structure, light from a nearby courtyard and adjoining reflecting pool illuminates a two-story lobby. With their mix of natural and artificial light, galleries are architecturally assertive containers that do not overwhelm their contents.
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Hospitals Use Palm Readers
Some hospitals are expanding biometric technology to include patient identification. Hospitals in North Carolina and New York are using palm scanners and fingerprint scanners to register patients and identify them at subsequent visits. But this effort to secure patient information could present a privacy risk.
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• October 03, 2007 Museum Connects Campus, Community • September 26, 2007 Thom Talks • September 19, 2007 Libya Unveils Ecotourism Project • September 12, 2007 High-Tech Hospital Has Historic, Maritime Flavor • September 05, 2007 Green Newspaper Building Makes Cents • August 29, 2007 Taking Green to the Bank • August 22, 2007 Where Art Thou Romeo? • August 15, 2007 Museum Re-enacts History’s Heroism |
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