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...Once the furnace lid is sealed, the temperature will slowly ratchet up over a period of several days, at times rising no more than 2 degrees C in an hour. At 750 degrees C (1382 degrees F), when the glass is a smooth, shiny lake, the furnace starts to whirl like a merry-go-round -- an innovation that automatically spins the glass into the parabolic shape traditionally achieved by grinding. At about 1150 degrees C, the liquid glass oozes into the mold, filling the cells of the honeycomb...
...play opened in a wash of romantic purple light, with lycra-clad couples embracing ecstatically. This initial, sugary sweet facade soon shattered into a whirl of violent, absurd and erotic images...
...most fans the formal rationale for the commissioner's decision was as irrelevant as the details of the government's tax case against Al Capone. What mattered was that Steinbrenner's 17-season reign of terror was finally over, and the Yankees were liberated from the egomaniacal whirl of managerial musical chairs, maladroit trades and the public castigation of star players and pitching coaches alike...
...they do so on a scale unjustly obscured by Tilt-a-Whirl and Cinderella's castle. The giant Disney parks in Florida and California consider everyone who greets the public to be a performer; the ranks of honest-to-Goofy singers, dancers and actors reach into the hundreds and arguably thousands, even if ) some sport Mickey Mouse heads. Nashville's much smaller Opryland, which relies more on entertainment to sell itself than any other park, employs 400-plus performers -- comparable with the combined casts of all the musicals currently on Broadway -- in a dozen shows with a cumulative annual audience...
EARTH DAY A GLOBAL FESTIVAL Not sure how to celebrate April 22? Here's a sampler of the worldwide whirl planned for the big day. The committed and the merely curious will be gathering at sites from Toulouse to Tokyo. There's something for everyone: a quiet read or a marathon rock concert, a bike ride or a mountain climb, some tree planting or trash sculpting...