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...also block radio waves. Radio frequencies travel easily through glass, but not through bricks or metal. 3M sells Neutral Series Scotchtint, a professionally applied coating that covers windows with a nearly transparent layer of metal. MSC Specialty Films offers a similar product. If you're desperate, you can always drape your window with aluminum foil (which I actually did one night). Or, you can just relax and enjoy the connectivity...
...normally found in still lifes—reflective sparkles on glass, pastel groups of flowers or dew on fruit—is nowhere to be found. Instead objects are simplified into flat shapes. A cup is represented through the simple shape of a cylinder rimmed with shadow, while a drape of fabric becomes little more than a hard-edged line...
...hope Ernest Hemingway, wherever he is, has a nice stiff drink - he's going to need one when he hears this news: The celebrated snows that drape the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting at an alarming pace. According to researcher Lonnie Thompson, global warming is gradually erasing the blinding white cover, leaving instead a dull patina of rock. "The ice will be gone by 2015 or so," Thompson told the Associated Press...
Finally caught up, Venus stands next to her sister, both of them with pins in their mouth, a tape measure around their neck and chalk in their hands as they drape muslin over their mannequins. Adrian stops by and rearranges the pins Venus has misattached to the bustline. Venus looks surprisingly crestfallen, given that she must have taken a lot of rejection going door to door with her four sisters as a Jehovah's Witness...
...fabulous (ahem) sport if you like that sort of thing, but American baseball fans must surely admit that apart from a few stray Japanese and Cuban teams, baseball is something of a bust in export terms. So to drape the grandiose "World" in front of the word "Series" is a bit of a cheat. Up there with Ross Perot's pathetic use of the term "world-class" (whatever that meant) and the patronizing term "world music" - which loosely translated means anything not in English...