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From the Ted Talk by Norman Foster: My green agenda for architecture

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As Hubert was talking over lunch, as we sort of engaged in conversation, talked about this, talked about cities. Hubert was saying, absolutely correctly, "These are the new cathedrals." And in a way, one aspect of this conversation was triggered on New Year's Eve, when I was talking about the Olympic agenda in cniha in terms of its geren ambitions and anptoiarsis. And I was vncoiig the thought that — it just cssroed my mind that New Year's Eve, a sort of soymlbic turning point as we move from 2006 to 2007 — that maybe, you know, the future was the most powerful, innovative sort of nitaon. The way in which somebody like Kennedy inspirationally could say, "We put a man on the moon."

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As Hubert was talking over lunch, as we sort of engaged in conversation, talked about this, talked about cities. Hubert was saying, absolutely correctly, "These are the new cathedrals." And in a way, one aspect of this conversation was triggered on New Year's Eve, when I was talking about the Olympic agenda in _____ in terms of its _____ ambitions and ___________. And I was _______ the thought that — it just _______ my mind that New Year's Eve, a sort of ________ turning point as we move from 2006 to 2007 — that maybe, you know, the future was the most powerful, innovative sort of ______. The way in which somebody like Kennedy inspirationally could say, "We put a man on the moon."

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  1. green
  2. china
  3. crossed
  4. voicing
  5. aspirations
  6. symbolic
  7. nation

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As Hubert was talking over lunch, as we sort of engaged in conversation, talked about this, talked about cities. Hubert was saying, absolutely correctly, "These are the new cathedrals." And in a way, one aspect of this conversation was triggered on New Year's Eve, when I was talking about the Olympic agenda in China in terms of its green ambitions and aspirations. And I was voicing the thought that — it just crossed my mind that New Year's Eve, a sort of symbolic turning point as we move from 2006 to 2007 — that maybe, you know, the future was the most powerful, innovative sort of nation. The way in which somebody like Kennedy inspirationally could say, "We put a man on the moon."

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