But demolition had been mysteriously halted, leaving half the structure standing and the other half a lethal pile of bombed-out debris — smashed beams, broken glass, rusted nails, and live electrical conduits.
Half a dozen pile drivers puff and pound where the first of Mr. Wong's four planned semiconductor plants will rise in a technology park at the end of Guo Shoujing Road in Shanghai, named for a 13th-century Chinese astronomer.
But the atmosphere was not business as usual, as flags around the city flew at half-staff, a pile of red carnations sat on a subway platform near the site of the blast and officials warned of more attacks to come.
All the pictures had been gathering dust, half buried in a pile of junk in the attic.
Rather than focusing on single women's lipstick and how scary it was for them to think about politics, CNN this time recognized that the economy can be a particularly pressing issue for people with one paycheck - a check that, by the way, is smaller than men's by nearly half - and a pile of bills.
The Ireland fly-half finished under a pile of bodies, including that of his Munster team-mate John Hayes.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and it's a wholly strange thing to see a lonesome bust of Lenin leader of the Bolsheviks, guiding light of Communism, father of the revolution ignominiously stashed away in a storage closet, half-buried under a pile of toys like so much common rubbish.
But a first-class man, who could lift a shovelful weighing twenty-one and a half pounds, could move a pile of coal lickety-split.
Half a dozen players piled off and returned with an armful of videos.
Participants also interacted with the Marina Abramović method, during which he spent six-and-a-half hours separating out a pile of black lentils and white rice.
