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Last year I remember reading an article that suggested that the government in concert with scientists tackle our energy problems with an urgent Manhattan Project-like program. At six billion people and total human population likely to reach 10 billion very soon maybe we could include rebuilding our cities. For a few reasons I won’t bore you with if Philip Glass was still with us I wouldn’t have put him in charge of a renaissance of our cities, but I would have included him as an adviser, Through a Glass, Clearly, a Modernist’s Questing Spirit

Two and a half years ago, at 98, he finally succumbed, and slowly his aura is beginning to fade. It is unlikely that any single person will ever hold so much sway over the profession again, but we are beginning to view his legacy with a bit more clarity.

Nowhere is this more evident than at the 47-acre estate that Johnson built for himself here over a span of nearly 50 years and that opened to the public last month. A collection of 14 structures that includes the legendary Glass House, completed in 1949; a guesthouse; an art gallery; and a sculpture pavilion, the complex survives as an enticing voyage through the ups and downs of late-20th-century architecture set in a dreamy landscape of rolling lawns and maple trees.

So you’re sitting there watching The Matrix for the fifteenth time on your second Cadbury bar and starting to feel a little guilty. Well there’s a little good news - Dark chocolate can help lower pressure  

COLOGNE, Germany, July 5 (UPI) — Thirty calories of dark chocolate — roughly one chocolate kiss — could help lower high blood pressure, German researchers said.

Small amounts of dark chocolate “efficiently reduced blood pressure,” reported the research team led by Dirk Taubert of Germany’s University Hospital of Cologne.

Not to be a chocolate racist or anything, but white chocolate did not provide any benefit.