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Thousands of soccer fans arriving this month for World Cup matches in Berlin may find the newly opened Central Station as thrilling as any penalty shoot-out. The $905 million depot consists of a soaring, 321-m-long, 9,000-glass-pane hall covering tracks[an error occurred while processing this directive] running east to west, a 46-m-high barrel-vaulted steel-and-glass hall and two rectangular office buildings running parallel to the underground north-south lines, plus a shopping galleria. It's on the site of the city's Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, inaugurated in 1871, the year...
...beat the adjacent seats A and C in rows 61 to 63. These are rare rows of two seats each, with extra storage space between the seats and the window. The guru does warn that the extra gap may get in the way of snoozing against the window pane-but it sure beats being stuck by that queue for the toilet...
...like a cockroach in a Dunster bathroom. It just keeps coming back. For those living under a rock—why haven’t you thrown that rock through the video display—the bank has virtually imprisoned a multi-ethnic band of salespeople behind a pane of glass at its new Square branch. These hawkers rotate regularly, shouting at passersby at all hours of the day and night. Perhaps Sovereign thinks if it scares the people walking in front of the deserted bank at night, people will fear muggings and put more money in banks. More likely...
...most beautiful stained glass window I’ve ever seen was one in which the different colors of glass were melted together, free from the defining black lines, to depict a sunset over the ocean. The horizon was sharp at the edges, but the pane blurred as the blue water and the yellow and red sky reflected the orange sun in the center, the colors spilling over each other in a fantastic display. Our eyes take in the world as a blur. It is only in our minds that lines are created in order for us to perceive...
...promises greater passenger comforts. Cabin pressure will be closer to sea level, easing pressure buildup in the sinuses and ears. Humidity will be set at 15% to 20%, rather than around 5%. And instead of pulldown shades, the windows will have "electrochromatic" controls that change the tint of the pane from clear to opaque. "Passengers will notice a difference in the way they feel at the end of a 787 flight," says Walt Gillette, Boeing's vice president of airplane development...