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...added protection against the chill of New England winters, or the heat of its summers, the building has such thermal protection as especially thick walls, recessed windows (for shade) and double-pane glass. It has other features that improve its in-habitability, including a large enclosed atrium, overlooked by interior balconies, and space for restaurants and shops, a rarity in a state building. Says Eggert: "Usually in designing an energy-efficient building, the client is the major stumbling block. But we got the go-ahead to make the building as efficient as possible...
...nerve center of the Police Department's glossy new headquarters is the dispatch room that sits, protected by a huge pane of plate glass, in the center of the building's suite of offices...
...need not consider the psychological effects on local residents of reopening the undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility near Harrisburg, Pa. The plant's other reactor had broken down on March 28, 1979; neither has been operating since. Leaders of People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE), the citizens group that challenged the startup, were disappointed but vowed to continue their fight. With NRC approval, however, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates the plant, hopes to reopen the unharmed reactor in July...
Throughout the filming, Govorukhin was obsessed with being faithful to the text. When Huck wakes Tom for their midnight expedition to the graveyard, Tom opens his bedroom window by pulling the lower pane upward. There are no such windows in the Soviet Union, so Govorukhin studied 19th century American architecture and had his carpenters build an American-style window. Mississippi steamboats were also in short supply, so Govorukhin instructed his carpenters to construct a replica, atop a barge, replete with lacy white railings, two smoking black chimneys and an American flag flapping at the stern...
...weeping to save his own skin, but theirs, that he was weeping for all those who did ever, or will ever, or do now devour their young? Jubilee is suddenly noiseless. No sawing and drilling. No amplified announcements. The sun is frozen in the lowest pane of the classroom window. "What did you think when you realized that they were going to let you live...