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Practicality takes a second seat when the race is on to be the tallest. But, the bragging that began with the tallest skyscrapers now includes a supremacy scuffle in Ferris Wheels, with a new tallest of "observation" structures, the Great Wheel of China, due for completion later this year. Are these really fantastic feats, or colossal calamities waiting to happen? Should we discourage each big reach, or view the works as testaments of engineering know how?
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Re: The Sky's the Limit
