Word: stainless
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...angled bronze and stainless steel wire mesh and glass facade is the defining feature of the structure, designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein, dean of the Vienna Academy of Arts and a recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture. His designs are known for fitting into the aesthetic and historical settings of a city, but at the same time, are considered fairly radical...
...kind of superaesthetic barrack, with an in-the-know economy of style. Vintage French army blankets cover the low-to-the-ground beds, and institutional stainless-steel sinks are bolted to the wall. Floor-to-ceiling photo murals and graffiti art offer the only adornments, while a glowing white cube on the floor helps illuminate. Instead of chocolates and a Bible, the Ace offers a couple of condoms and the Kama Sutra. Most of the rooms are no bigger than they were when the Peniel Mission ran the place, but rates haven't gone up much either: prices start...
...deaths that keep Dr. Abdel Razq Masry awake each night. The only pathologist in the Gaza Strip, Masry records each of the intifadeh's victims. On Dec. 2, he went early in the morning to the morgue at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Laid out on the stainless-steel dissecting table was the small body of Mohammed Arja. Masry looked at the records sent up from Rafah, the town on the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt where Arja had been shot the previous day. The boy was 11. "I was angry as hell," Masry says. "I'd like...
...next step was to thread a tiny surgical balloon and a thin stainless-steel stent into the artery to forcibly widen the passage. After the balloon was deflated, the metal mesh of the stent was left in place to keep the artery open. During this procedure the results from Cheney's second blood test became available. It showed a slight increase in the cardiac enzymes, indicating that Cheney had suffered a mild heart attack after...
...Playing this monster is a quadraphonic version of rubbing your stomach and patting your head, and that's just coordinating the movements. The real problems start when you try to find accurate intonation on the neck with a 7.5-ounce stainless steel bar while simultaneously damping the strings to avoid sounding like a pack of seasick cats...