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Needless repetition is something Apurba Tribedi cannot abide. It was a formative frustration: every year, the river near his childhood home in Malda, India, burst its banks. The floodwaters washed out local houses, destroyed possessions, and sometimes forced families to...
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Some engineering marvels were once highly controversial projects. As the Empire State Building grew above Manhattan during the Great Depression, many New Yorkers complained that the iconic Art Deco skyscraper was a waste of money. Throughout the 1990s, security-conscious Brits...
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