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Comments on: Fire guts historic Silicon Valley building

IBM's Building 25 was renowned for the invention of an ancestor of the modern hard drive, as well as a precursor to the modern high-tech campus.

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Raising a point about razing
by nmcphillips March 9, 2008 4:09 PM PDT
"...the city of San Jose, which had sided with big-box retailer Lowe's to raise the structure and build a 180,000-square-foot store on the site."

surely that should be "to raze the structure" unless Lowe's were going to lift it up and build under it ;)
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Corrected
by stevenmusil March 9, 2008 5:59 PM PDT
Thank you for pointing out the typo.
And who might be responsible for the fire I wonder???!
by braddersman March 12, 2008 1:56 PM PDT
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