Word: float
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...Meanwhile, Sydney's plan for a Moving Image Museum is being resurrected on the Brisbane River. While local firm Architectus' competition-winning design does appear to float, with a 12-m winged canopy and 9,000 sq. m of glass, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is anchored by the black box of a cinema at its base. Two theaters and an exhibition space will form the hub of Australia's first Cinematheque within an art museum, when it opens with the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in November 2006. "One of the most important visual arts...
...buoyancy, or the density of an object compared to the water or air surrounding it, determines whether or not an object will float, according to the research. When an object does float on water, the water will not remain flat, but will instead form a bump or dimple, depending on the object’s weight. When two identical objects float close together, the change is more noticeable—two cheerios, for example, will cause slight dents in the milk and close together, will appear to “fall into” each other or form clumps...
...Beijing and Washington. Another touchy area is that of China’s currency. Many U.S. trade groups accuse China of keeping the yuan artificially cheap to bolster exports. The yuan was revalued in July from a direct 8.28 peg to the U.S. dollar to an approximately 8.11 managed float, but the 2.1 percent revaluation is still far below the 10 percent wanted by Washington. These issues have all strained Sino-U.S. relations in the past few months, and that’s not even to mention North Korea talks or the perpetual Taiwan question. A successful summit must...
...curious away from what has become both an arduous recovery effort and a health hazard. In the wreckage over the weekend, the bodies of a woman and her baby were recovered, the child still strapped to her chest. Helicopters shuttle back and forth along the beaches, spotting bodies that float up on shore, over a week after Katrina's swells first pulled them...
...aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been grim. Decaying human bodies float in the heavily polluted water that has inundated the streets of New Orleans, a once-vibrant city. Even though the refugees are being evacuated, the streets are being drained, and the corpses are being removed, it still seems slightly impious to speak of a bright side or a silver lining. To laud anything good that has happened, any mitigating factors, seems to make light of the enormity of the whole disaster, to disrespect the dead, to spit upon the newly homeless with an air of moldy optimism...