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The science of how buildings fall down

By Colin Nickerson
Globe Staff / December 3, 2007

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A chunk of metal suspended from a string served for the bomb. Mehrdad Sasani, an assistant professor of structural engineering at Northeastern University, aimed for the center support column on the base of a faux "three-story" building and loosed the makeshift projectile. (Full article: 747 words)

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