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a symbol of the country's failure, earning nicknames "Hotel of Doom" and "Phantom Hotel."
 
Yonsei's Lee and other architects said there were questions raised about whether the hotel
 
was structurally sound and a few believed completing the structure could cause it to collapse.
 
It would cost up to $2 billion to finish the Ryugyong Hotel and make it safe, according to estimates in South Korean media.
 
That is equivalent to about 10 percent of the North's annual economic output.
 
Bruno Giberti, associate head of California Polytechnic State University's Department of Architecture, said the project was typical of what has been produced
 
recently in many cities trying to show their emerging wealth by constructing gigantic edifices that were not related in scale to anything else around them.
 
"If this is the worst building in the world,
 
the runners up are in Vegas and Shanghai," said Giberti.
 
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An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.
 
Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin recently failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.
 
The coffeehouse's employees claim that since June 2007, Garvin had visited the store as many as six times a night while on duty. Besides demanding free drinks, workers complained that Garvin also cut in front of paying customers.
 
A telephone listing for Garvin could not be found.
 
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