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1. How does Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia qualify as "green architecture"?

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Ten pavilions function as wind scoops and cool the inside

Open, unfinished pavilions are used to collect rainwater

Open center is used for cultivating bamboo for construction

Southern orientation provides passive solar heating

2. What is a key question for grasping meaning in Gerhard Richter's photographic paintings?

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Why he selected a particular photograph

Why he deviated from the photograph's reality

Why he omitted certain details from the photograph

Why he blurred some details and not others

3. How did television's An American Family star Lance Loud create controversy in the mid 1970s?

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He was openly gay

He was divorced

He supported abortion

He posed nude for Andy Warhol.

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