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...city of Nishinomiya, nine miles outside the port of Kobe, contains many rooms the same size as those simulators. They tend to be in two-story, traditional wooden houses built in the years just after World War II. The roofs of such houses are heavy blue or brown tile. The walls are a thin lattice of light wood finished with stucco. The effect, says Laurence Kornfield, a San Francisco chief building inspector familiar with the style, is ``a lot like putting a heavy book up on top of a frame of pencils...
...real earthquake, the most deadly since 1923, roared through the Kobe area, something happened to the little rooms that never happens in the simulator machines. Their roofs fell in. By the tens of thousands. Where each house stood, there is now just a brown or blue blanket of tile, settled almost gently over a wreckage of wood, plaster and human bodies...
...that point, no matter how much Penn State or Alabama or who-ever else complains, we will have earned our bowl victory and our National Tile...
...floor of the hall outside the courtroom looks as though a group of giants had played a massive game of Twister on it. Tape of various colors marks off space for the cameras of various local TV stations, and the floor tile is checkered by extension cords and black camera stands...
...cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location of the palace, and the vast size of Kublai's grounds, can be traced today, with the help of guides from China's Bureau of Relics. It is the ghost of magnificence; only a few shards of colored tile can still be found in the sweep of grassland. Not far away, Chinese industrialization crowds...