Word: slab
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Goodbye, fake ’n’ bake—the sun has arrived in Cambridge. Tanning by the Charles may be picturesque, but to avoid wandering insects and horny truck drivers, an elevated location works best. So slab on the tanning oil, situate yourself on a dark sun-absorbing rooftop, and let the sun worshipping begin...
...Murabitun radio station and party headquarters also took a pounding: floors collapsed, pillars buckled, and steel reinforcing rods bent into bizarre shapes. Later, Amal militiamen could be seen standing guard outside the gutted building. Emblazoned on a concrete slab at the entrance was a Murabitun slogan: WHAT IS TAKEN BY FORCE IS REGAINED ONLY BY FORCE...
...awkward counter stools of years past have been replaced by a noble slab of green marble, factory-issued bar code stickers still attached. Capping off the two—possibly three—figure renovations with faux-maple shutters perched above the open-air kitchen, Tommy has transformed what was once merely a house into a home...
Except there is no stage--anyway, not a stable floor. Instead, a void, out of which some ethereal miracles materialize. Many of them take place on two huge surfaces: a 1,250-sq.-ft., 175-ton slab (known as the sand-cliff deck) and a smaller one (the 900-sq.-ft., 40-ton tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur...
Scientists have known for some time about the 700-mile-long fault off the coast of Washington, Oregon and California, where a wayward slab of the earth's crust known as the Juan de Fuca plate is trying to slide under continental North America. What they didn't appreciate until quite recently was that the juncture where the two plates are locked together can snap violently like a giant spring, unleashing a tsunami as large and terrifying as the one that pummeled South Asia...