Word: roofing
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...cars had managed to wend their way through the crush of traffic and were trying to slide under the low-slung metal cable tethered to the truck in the ditch. One, an SUV, was a bit too high; as it edged forward the cable scraped along its roof. Soldiers rushed in and forced the driver to stop and then made a cursory attempt to push the crowd back a safe distance. Slowly, the winch on the back of a recovery truck started hauling in the stricken vehicle. The cables groaned and creaked and the pins started to pull...
...With a fuselage-gray roof that comes to rest on the ground like giant wingtips, the building has the look of a vast origami stealth bomber. Created by architect Tadao Ando, it is home to 21_21 Design Sight, an ambitious design museum of which Miyake is one of three directors. The others are product designer Naoto Fukasawa and graphics guru Taku Satoh. Their mission is to separate design from the mercantile world of branding, and give it its original, purer meaning: the creation of practical and beautiful objects that improve the quality of life...
Under their proposal, a television signal would be received by a satellite dish on a dormitory roof, transmitted to a converter box in the basement, and then sent via existing electrical wires to individual rooms...
...slightly stuffy rooms when you walk in the door; and startlingly modern, relaxed, informal living spaces to the rear. The Gores bought the old place five years ago and are still retrofitting it, making it energy efficient with new windows, new heating and cooling units, solar panels on the roof. (The anti-Gore crowd zinged him recently because his electricity bill last August was 10 times the local average. The Gores pay extra to get 100% of their power from renewable sources, and their zealous retrofitting will no doubt bring their costs down. But it stung.) A new addition...
...Iranians have been helping ease Saudi nerves. On Tuesday the Iranian deputy foreign minister offered to give the United States a "face-saving withdrawal." When the Iranians talk like this, the Saudis draw on their worst nightmares, like an Iranian helicopter evacuating the last American troops off the roof of our embassy in Baghdad. The nightmare ends with an isolationist U.S. handing the Gulf over to a "pragmatic" Iran...