Word: domes
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...killing himself and more than 24 Shi'ites. Next to die was radical Sunni Muslim cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, who was gunned down on May 30 while driving to his Binori Town mosque and seminary. The following day, a suicide bomber set off a blast that shattered the dome of the Shi'ite Ali Reza mosque, killing...
...Their time will come. The opening of the Sands Macau, a $240 million waterfront pleasure dome, offers Asia its first taste of Las Vegas glitz, and the casino will soon be followed by others like it. In 2002 the local government ended a 40-year monopoly on the gambling business, permitting two of Vegas' biggest gaming magnates to open up shop. The economic boom that has ensued is loud even by Chinese standards. While nearby Hong Kong's economy, with a total population 15 times the size of Macau's 450,000, grew just 3.3% during a SARS-marred...
...Sadr draws U.S. forces into bloody street battles that do extensive damage to Shi'ite holy sites. On Friday a fire fight between al-Sadr's forces and U.S. tankers near Najaf's shrine of the Imam Ali left four small holes in the shrine's golden dome. Almost immediately, U.S. officials blamed al-Sadr. Says a senior Army officer: "The approach we're using has kept the majority of Shi'ites on our side...
...show it. The Undergraduate Council’s heavily touted party simply had little else going for it. That everyone was packed into an indoor venue made it incredibly difficult even to see the performers. The two hours of opening acts, from breakers to emcees going off the dome and anything else remotely hip-hop, became increasingly taxing...
...idea had seized the imagination of the great visionaries of 20th century architecture, though they approached the question with their usual indifference to public taste. The pioneer modernist Le Corbusier wrote a famous essay in praise of "Mass Production Houses." He just never got around to producing one. Geodesic-dome inventor Buckminster Fuller spent years tinkering with his Dymaxion House. But he insisted on making it circular and steel walled. Americans weren't ready for a house that looked like a flying saucer...