Most of it had vaporized as the meteor cut through earth's atmosphere.
America's reaction seems to be let's do more to cut our earth-warming emissions and our carbon footprints, even if it is expensive — something the Bush administration didn't want to do.
Deep cuts in earth science budgets for several U.S. agencies are in store next year under a proposed budget that awaits a vote by the House of Representatives.
"If this is permitted, it would really shine an ill light on the notion that being within an historic district prevents or discourages this kind of clear-cut, scorched-earth development," said Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, a citywide advocacy group.
The last surviving structures would most likely be open pit mines, large landfills, major highways, wide canal cuts, and earth-fill flank dams.
The most intriguing pictures, though, are those of nonarchitectural forms cut into the earth or traced on its surface, like prehistoric versions of 1970's Earth Art.
China has cut its rare earth export quotas by 40 percent this year, to 30,300 tons.
Cut from the earth, it swallows the sky, its high plateaus serving as a threshold between the two.
The pavilion sits over a deep cut in the earth where Aitken and his studio crew buried microphones sensitive to vibrations caused by the rotation of the planet.
Throughout the essay, she demonstrates how she kept looping back to the central, solid kernel of her idea: "a simple impulse to cut into the earth".
