Word: glassing
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Berger's eagerly anticipated new venture, Donald's, will be a four-story glass-and-open-air lakeside extravaganza, and is set to open later this summer with a wine room, oyster bar and multinational menu. It looks like the French Quarter's monopoly on fine dining has been lost. "Hanoi has grown so fast," agrees Berger. "We're now really the center...
...Those who voted for Mr. Mousavi. Those who are creating unrest. Those who break glass, smash windows, and vandalize. Those who threaten people. It is not the right thing to defend these people," said Adel, a former parliament speaker...
...only taken three or four spoonfuls of my meal when I heard gunfire," says Khan, lying in a hospital bed. "We all quickly fell to the ground. The firing intensified. I moved quickly inside, into the glass room on one side of the roof, thinking it would be safer. But when the explosion happened, bits of glass came flying from everywhere." Khan's head is thickly wrapped in bandages, as are two fingers on his left hand. He lifts his shirt to reveal scars on his back. But the hotel staff cooking for the rooftop diners and entertaining them with...
Zubair Khan realizes his good fortune. When armed gunmen riding in a pick-up truck laden with 500kg explosives attacked Peshawar's landmark Pearl Continental Hotel on the night of June 9, killing at least 9 people and injuring dozens, he only suffered injuries from flying shards of glass. If Khan had been sitting just 20 feet closer to the edge of the roof, where he and others were dining when the attack took place, he may not have survived. (See pictures of the hotel blast...
...blown guilt. Clemence Gautier, an intellectual-property consultant with law firm Tilleke & Gibbins, took me on a tour of Bangkok's Museum of Counterfeit Goods, a 1,070-sq.-ft. (100 sq m) Aladdin's cave of thousands of illicit products. Incongruously chic, with its polished wooden floor, shimmering glass display cases and subdued lighting, the museum is incorporated into the firm's offices on the 26th floor of downtown Bangkok's Supalai Grand Tower. (Read about the war on knockoff bags...