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...boasts spotless wooden floors, polished tables and chairs and Starbucks-esque light fixtures, not to mention a bar with frosted glass cabinets, and a flat screen...
...northeast, block her passage in an attempt to get a glimpse of their rehabilitated leader. Bhutto, who was greeted by a million-strong crowd when she returned from exile in 1986 to take up her father's position as party leader, will be riding in a specially designed bulletproof glass container mounted on a trailer. It's kind of like the pope-mobile, says PPP information secretary Sherry Rehman, "only without...
Handcuffs, lipstick, lingerie, a straitjacket, a martini glass, and a naked woman have conspicuously snuck onto the cover of a science book. Something is afoot.Looking at the fluorescent assortment of seemingly random images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world—and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe...
London's St. Pancras station immediately became an icon when it opened in 1868. Its arched glass ceiling stretched overhead for 243 ft. (74 m), flooding the terminal with sunlight. Religious imagery adorned its neo-Gothic façade, and spires reached for the heavens. But maintaining that splendor proved difficult. Despite surviving the London Blitz and a planned demolition in 1966, the station fell into disrepair and became more synonymous with drug dealers and prostitutes than with imperial grandeur...
Jaime Schier, the quality control manager of Harpoon Brewery, spoke to the audience about the culture, history, and chemistry of beer, explaining such phenomenons as why why beer in glass bottles sometimes taste “skunky...