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...UNVEILED. The AIRBUS A380, the world's biggest passenger plane, at a VIP-packed gala in its hangar; in Toulouse, France. The result of a 10-year, $12 billion program linking construction plants in Britain, France, Germany and Spain, the A380 surpasses in size the U.S.-made Boeing 747, which has dominated the skies for 25 years. Airlines have already ordered more than 140 of the aircraft, which can carry up to 840 passengers on two decks. The first commercial flights are expected in spring...
...trucks so vulnerable that troops must forage for "rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that's already been shot up, dropped, busted, picking the best out of this scrap to put on our vehicles to take into combat." Many of Wilson's 2,300 comrades in the hangar were applauding in agreement...
...Since this has happened, there are still doors propped open,” she said. “Yesterday, I found a door propped open with a hanger. I knocked, I rang the bell, but no one responded. So I took the hangar out and closed the door...
...Gordon Matta-Clark that consists of a large section cut from an entire house and the room-size installations that became more common in the '70s and after. The danger of so vast an expansion, of course, was that MOMA would itself become economy size, an alienating blimp hangar. "The most cherished dimension of the old museum was its sense of intimacy," says Glenn Lowry, MOMA's director. "When we began laying out the new building, we had the option of 20,000 to 30,000 more square feet than we settled on. We didn't want to become...
...site, surrounded by smiling, hard-hatted laborers; on the left, plump and girlishly handsome son Kim Jong Il stands on the deck of a speedboat, surrounded by marines. Visitors then walk through a series of galleries enclosed within a giant red-walled box set up in the museum's hangar-like exhibit space. "It's like entering the cocoon of North Korean reality for a short time," says Koen De Ceuster, a professor at Leiden University's center for Japanese and Korean studies, who served as the museum's adviser. "The people live surrounded by this all the time...