The giant Tsunami wave that devastated the northeast coast of Japan wiped out the region's coastal fishing industry, and cut the country's total seafood production by a quarter.
They pause before an enormous Christmas tree in the Grand Place, the central square of Brussels that is surrounded by elaborately decorated old "guildhalls."
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles south, on the Banks of the Columbia River, a mysterious outfit known only as "Design, LLC," quietly constructed two massive windowless warehouses.
Even when the hype is discounted, decoding the 3bn chemical "letters" of the genome is likely to have a huge impact on science, medicine and our perception of what it means to be human.
Look at the names they picked for their enterprises: Hyundai (The Modern Era) and Samsung (Three Stars, implying a business that would be huge and eternal).
Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda—with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as shinbashira—simply flexes and sways during a typhoon or earthquake?
The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes' expenses.
If the thighbone doesn't rotate enough, you'll apply huge pinching pressure to the meniscus—as if your shinbone and thighbone were a giant pair of pliers.