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The NYT business section cites a fact that puts much Internet hype into perspective while powerfully explaining the rationale of the recent spate of "clicks and mortar" business deals: Wal-Mart is expected to report nearly $143 billion in domestic revenue for fiscal 1999, roughly 7 percent of the United States retail market and seven times all Internet sales combined.
The cone is formed by small limestone slabs set in a spiral without mortar to bind them.
Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.
But this wonderful new building, with its 21st Century computer resources will need the continued involvement of many friends like you --people who understand that a library is more than bricks, mortar, and good architecture.
Too much buck-passing (usually in the name of scientific rigor) between the experts on language, literature, and history has resulted in the sad fact that clear thought, the mortar that serves to create integrated human interaction, has been quite consistently assigned to the other guy's bailiwick.