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Excitement is building

by JOSH ROBERTS

Big time: Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ever wondered how skyscrapers stay up? Or how dams contain all that water? The answers are in "Building Big," a five-part series starting Tuesday (Oct. 3) on most PBS stations. Each week, host David Macaulay, author of "The New Way Things Work," will explore the construction of huge structures. The Web site offers plenty to budding engineers, such as virtual labs and a searchable database of the featured buildings and structures, from Boston's Big Dig to Paris' Eiffel Tower.

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Building Big

www.pbs.org/buildingbig