Magnus Larsson Turning dunes into architecture

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity.

Some of the stories are just so classic, and yet so understandable.

At the time, the stadium was a masterpiece of engineering, and its inauguration was monumental.

Writing such an unjustifiable sentence and continuing in order to justify it, Kafka's work became the masterpiece of contemporary literature.

In addition, the house of Sheikh Ghanim Bin Abdulrahman Al Abdulghani is considered to be a significant architectural landmark on the beach.

His farewell statement, offered to us so surprisingly last Tuesday, was such an oratorical masterpiece, providing us with an insightful diagnosis of the problems facing the Conference.

To say that this place is a marvel of technological innovation is like saying teenage girls found Elvis attractive.

A profound scholar of the Qur'an ... a unique personality ... an embodiment of piety ... an unfathomable sea of knowledge ... an institution within himself ... a literary genius ... a researcher of prodigious intellect ...

The last is the picturesque coastal town of Zabid, with its narrow alleyways and burnt brick buildings.

Achebe challenged the 20th century philosophy of fiction as a pretty object d art, arriving with works which foregrounded the human condition and told the wondering world that the clotheless Emperor was, indeed, naked!

So now, if you take this metaphor of genome as program seriously, you have to consider that Chris Anderson is a computer fabricated artifact, as is Jim Watson, Craig Venter, as are all of us.