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Is Prefab Fab? MoMA Plans a Show
Seizing the moment the Museum of Modern Art has commissioned five architects to erect their own prefab dwellings in a vacant lot on West 53rd Street, adjacent to the museum. Whittled down from a pool of about 400, the five architects are participating in "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling," an exhibition opening in July. The five, to be announced today by the museum, are KieranTimberlake Associates of Philadelphia; Lawrence Sass of Cambridge, Mass.; Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston of Manhattan; Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf of Austria; and Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee in London. Each firm has a track record with prefabricated housing, but they all approach the form differently. The proposals were evaluated by a jury of MoMA curators and staff members and architectural professionals.
EDITOR'S CHOICE
With millions to spend we should be looking at younger strikers with potential, hunger and speed. Cisse and Saviola are not suited to our type of football. They will expect quality distribution from midfield and they wont get it. We need a replacement who will score some goals but we also need quality in defence and midfielders who will also get goals. If we have 15 million for Anelka we must also have the 5 million or so we were going to spend without Anelka going. 20 million would allow us to strengthen with quality throughout the team. Guthrie should be the first signing. Then we should look at the recommendations from all the scouts that have been scouring the world. Big names don't mean goals. Arsene Wenger brings in young quality players for 3 or 4 million. We will never have this amount of cash again and need to spend for the future.
Freed without bail -- with a deadly result
I was afraid of him," said Tamara Cerven, Thomas-Harris' manager at Nutro Products Inc. in the City of Industry.
Harris and Thomas-Harris were married in June 2001 and separated in October 2003, according to divorce papers filed in December 2005.
About the same time as the divorce filing, Thomas-Harris and members of her extended family were granted a temporary restraining order against Harris after an incident at her home in West Covina.
Asked in that case to describe the "most recent abuse," Thomas-Harris wrote: "Curtis came to my home. I opened the front door but not the security door. He kept asking me to step outside so he could speak to me. I refused many times and asked him to leave. He got angrier and angrier, kicking and banging on the door.
Son charged in death of mom
A West Miami-Dade man fatally beat his 85-year-old invalid mother in her sleep last month after they argued about his persistent drinking, police say. Nelson Gell Brown, five feet four inches, 150 pounds, was booked into jail on a charge of first-degree murder, authorities said Monday. According to an arrest report, a nurse who usually checks on Rosa Brown found her ''battered about the face and arms'' around 10 a.m. Dec. 2. Nelson Brown, 47, who lived with his mother in the condo at 8695 NW Sixth Ln., was asleep on the sofa. Rosa Brown told the nurse her son had attacked her ''with his arms and fists'' while acting ``very aggressive . . . as if crazy.'' Rosa Brown had been attacked around 4 a.m., meaning she lay undiscovered for six hours.
Radio Show Host Released From Williamson County Jail
A radio talk show host who is often at odds with the criminal justice system in Williamson County was released from jail there. Randall Kelton went to Georgetown Friday to seek the arrest of a sheriff's deputy. Kelton said he believes the deputy kidnapped a D-W-I suspect in Travis County and took her to jail in Williamson County. When the district attorney refused to accept the complaint, Kelton tried to have him arrested. Georgetown police charged Kelton with two misdemeanors, assault by contact and interference with the duties of a public servant. He spent the weekend in jail before posting a $2,000 bond Sunday night. .
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Italian pay-TV revenues grow to E2bn
A faster network is unlikely to be available beyond business centres, given the high capital cost.
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Eutelsat net quadruples Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has reported net profit quadrupled to E170m in its year to June from E40.2m previously, lifted by the non-recurrence of restructuring charges and lower financial costs. Full year sales grew 4.8 per cent to E829.1m from E791.1m and EBITDA improved 5.9 per cent to E652.6m from E616.5m.
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UK unclear on switchover An estimated 33 million people in Britain do not know when their region will switch from analogue to digital television, an online poll has found. The research, which was conducted in May and June by YouGov for uSwitch.com, found that the figure for the number still in the dark about digital switchover - which represents 73 per cent of the UK adult population - had decreased since the last such survey in January.
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