Word: glassing
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Piano has placed floor-to-ceiling glass walls at the north and south ends of his building, which introduce light directly into some of the galleries through a scrim that can be raised on overcast days. The window walls also admit some powerful views of Millennium Park, including a huge vista of the billowing steel panels of Frank Gehry's wonderful Pritzker band shell, which comes at you like a breaker on the beach at Santa Monica...
...slender pedestrian bridge that rises to deposit visitors onto a rooftop sculpture terrace that's free of charge. But to be admitted to the galleries, which on most days have an admission fee, you enter at ground level. What you find there is a three-story, glass-roofed atrium, a long processional space that's flanked on the left by a freestanding stairway that zigzags up to galleries on the second and third floors. On the right, temporary exhibition galleries occupy the first floor, with design and architecture above them, and on the third floor, a restaurant and that sculpture...
...museum, however, is made up of the usual look-but-don't-touch exhibits. A full-size model of the iconic Sputnik satellite is suspended from the ceiling, while the tiny capsule that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin used to orbit the Earth rests on a pedestal. In two glass cases at the entrance, the stuffed bodies of Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to return to Earth alive after a space flight, sit with their heads cocked inquisitively. Some of the halls are lined with kitschy "space art" (one piece shows a white-clad cosmonaut floating...
...Another 15% of permits would be given free of charge to energy-intensive factories in the Rustbelt, such as steel, glass, cement, aluminum and paper plants, which would become less competitive internationally if they had to pay for permits. For its part, the hard-hit auto industry would be treated to 3% of the permits to encourage domestic production of electric and fuel efficient vehicles...
...overhaul the credit-card industry's interactions with its customers, including the interest rates and fees it charges. "You should not have to worry that when you sign up for a credit card, you're signing away all your rights," the President said. "You shouldn't need a magnifying glass or a law degree to read the fine print." (Read "The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders...