When authorities in the Washington DC area were afflicted with the terrible headache of trying in vain to catch the mysterious snipers shooting at people in the street, someone suggested that pedestrians should walk in a zigzag to avoid being assaulted. When talking about issues involving the establishment of direct trade, mail and transportation connections across the Taiwan Strait, some people also suggested that airplanes should fly in a corkscrew pattern to prevent being pursued by missiles. ¡°Will it hit?¡± My three-year-old daughter always asks me this question, whenever she sees an aircraft flying around a high-rise. The 9-11 pictures that she saw on television are causing her to make this association in her mind. Having watched air show maneuvers on television, I wonder if buildings could behave just as airplanes do. Anti-terrorism Variety is my solution to combating terrorists. High-rises could dodge aircraft in all sorts of different ways, without damaging airplanes carrying innocent passengers. This is the most perfect idea I could come up with to prevent and fight terrorism, For the present, no architects are able to construct such a building. I hope, however, that someday they will acquire this capability. My intention today is for my solution to dispel people¡¯s nightmares, if, in their extreme agony, the American people have become suspicious of everything, and accuse me of looking on at their troubles with indifference, I will have nothing to say. |