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I got "Percolation" by Grimmett.

Wired runs "Tokyo, Living Lab of Possible Futures." The concluding paragraph is,

One detail of Fujimori's vision of 2107 is already anachronistic [?]. His model humorously shows the familiar 333-meter red-and-white Tokyo Tower snapped in two, half-submerged in Tokyo Bay. But by 2011 a new 610-meter structure, designed by Tadao Ando and sculptor Kiichi Sumikawa, will replace the 1958 tower. It'll be the world's tallest self-supporting structure -- until the Chinese build a bigger one, or flood, fire, earthquake or Toho monster (pick your own Sim disaster) strikes the world's most fascinating, fast-changing, future-friendly city.

Canada needs Tokyo Tower, badly! Behold! Yes do you love it already!

UBC used to have a Dean Klawe (of Science), but she left for Princeton. It has presently got a Professor Scull, though, so things are not so bad.