Word: foamed
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...shoulders freeways and a ballpark; and in Beijing I expected industriousness to spill from Yanjing's kegs into the streets. Our cab would follow ant lines of tricycles, one rolling in empty, one clinking out full, past packed restaurants; and there would be Germans, lots of jolly Germans, licking foam from facial hair and shouting for another round. But the empty boulevard carried us in efficient quietness to the gates of Yanjing's Mansion of Science and Technology. The guard saluted the car around the fountain and under a granite colonnade. Clocks told the time in Paris, London...
...Brew (yanjing.com.cn) Foam Home Yanjing's official website opens with a techno-driven splash page, but the contents lose something in translation. Beer that's "clear and limpid with white fine foams" sounds more poetic in Mandarin. But there are introductions to several varieties of beer and a short history of the company...
...leather-upholstered airline seat, right, in Virgin Atlantic's new Upper Class Suite needs a little more prompting (you actually have to push a button), but then it does a pretty nifty trick of its own, flipping over to become an 80in. foam-mattress bed. It's the latest weapon in the seat wars airlines are waging for coveted business-class passengers. Each of the aisle-only chairs comes with a customizable lumbar support--and an ottoman, just in case you need to conduct an onboard staff meeting or order up an in-flight beauty-therapy treatment. Virgin is spending...
...nearby. As Williams shows a visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets nothing. The price of a bag of rice has quintupled...
...work will include replacing the foam in all the seats with fire-proof padding, installing a modern fire curtain and doing minor touch-ups on the electrical and drainage systems, according to Symonds...