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How did he build that?!(card stacker Bryan Berg)(Cover story)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
How did he build that?! is a question to ask Bryan Berg, world-record-holding card stacker. Berg holds the Guinness World Record for the World's Tallest House of Cards (1992) and the World's Largest House of Cards (2004). He was only 17 when he won his first world...
Watts Towers: "something big".(Sabato Rodia)
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Sabato Rodia wanted to "do something big." So the tiny man from Italy collected wire, cement, broken plates, bottles, and seashells and built towers reaching into the sky around his California home.
The towers rise on a dead-end street in Watts, one of Los...
Amazing sandcastles.
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Snakes slither among scary skeletons. Knights on horseback ride out from tall, turreted castles. Clowns laugh, surrounded by fire-breathing dragons, mythical monsters, and beautiful, long-haired princesses. No, you're not surrounded by characters from a fantasy...
Is it a guitar? Is it a ship? No, it's a building!(Architect Frank Gehry's unusually shaped buildings)
April 1, 2009... Take a look at the buildings you see around you every day. Most of them are square or rectangular, with straight lines and right angles, right? Now imagine a building that looks like a squashed electric guitar, or a man and a woman dancing together.
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Building the longest, tallest, fastest scream machines.
April 1, 2009... YOUR HEART RACES. You stood in line for hours to ride the new monster coaster. Now, you're being strapped in and warned to keep your hands and arms inside the car at all times. A thought crosses your mind as you are launched out of the station: How in the world do they build these monster...