Word: glassing
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...photographs tell a tale of what is being lost. Sakamaki wandered through old mud-brick quarters destined to be bulldozed and glimpsed the steel-and-glass materialist world that Chinese planners see rising above the rubble. Much of his work is suffused with a melancholy he allows to be dubbed "poetic." It is the picture, in many instances, of a people resigned to defeat...
There have been cameras pointed at war zones since 1855, when the British photographer Roger Fenton toted his tripod and glass-plate negatives to the scenes of the Crimean War. A few years later, Matthew Brady and his team made their unprecedented record of battlefield deaths and civilian devastation in the Civil War. For most of us, our memories of war in the 20th century are from an image bank of photographs, from D-day to Korea and Vietnam--pictures that not only recorded those wars but also informed the way people felt about them...
...Obama could be seen through the thick glass windows of the Oval Office reclining in his chair in shirtsleeves, talking to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The speech arrived a few minutes later, and after reviewing the draft one more time, Obama walked back to his chair, grabbed his coat, and then, at 11:15 a.m., made his way outside to face the world for the first time, as a 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. With a grim visage that seemed more appropriate for a runner-up than the winner of such a prestigious prize, Obama...
...very important point of the program," says Tezuka. "We didn't think there would be such big news about it." Among ANA's other green programs include recycling plastic bottles and paper cups, using lighter items in the cabin (such as plastic bottles for wine instead of glass ones) and providing chopsticks made from the wood from thinned domestic forests...
Spanning several academic disciplines, Aizenberg researches the glass skeletons of deep underwater sea sponges inhabited by shrimp, which serve as an inspiration for constructing buildings...