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...bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens, which was degrading the fungicide. So the restorers added antibiotics to the mix in which they soaked bandages to plaster the lower walls of the cave. Tons of quicklime, which kills fungus but also temporarily raised the cave's ambient temperature, was spread on the floor. Since the worst of the infection has been brought under control, the team now relies on "mechanical removal"--that is, carefully plucking the filaments from the wall by hand...
Jean Nouvel is standing in midair with his arms held high. O.K., he's not really in midair. He's standing on a window. Well, not exactly a window. It's a 5-ft. by 10-ft. plate of glass that's set into the floor of a long corridor of his new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. It's the corridor that's in midair. Actually, it's not simply a corridor. It's more a kind of covered bridge to nowhere that cantilevers 178 ft. across and 60 ft. above the city's West River Parkway. And then...
...alfresco interview, but workers are building the set for Mother Courage and Her Children (which Streep will star in this summer), and the noise from the electric saw sends us into the dressing rooms, which contain but one tired old folding chair. Streep promptly plunks herself on the floor. "I'll sit in my usual position--at the press's feet," she jokes. After a chair is found, Streep sits and asks what we're talking about...
...security guard, for that matter. The attendees who aren't folded into dank basement conference rooms have their noses shoved into laptops; about every ten steps or so in the hallways one has to avoid tripping over the legs of someone who has plonked down on the floor and commenced blogging in situ. The shabbiness of the surroundings underscores the diligent purpose of the event, at least...
...second code five, six west" was on the overhead as we ran onto the floor. Two codes at the same time on the same floor? "They're both in here," called a very distressed female voice from a patient room on the far side of the floor. We charged in to find this scene: A nurse's aide was pushing and tugging at an unconscious woman, dressed in white like a nurse, lying face-down, unconscious, on top of an old, fat, naked man, also unconscious in his hospital bed. The man was in for some urologic problem. The nurse...