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Adjaye is unapologetic about putting a windowless wall along a street where there is nothing to look at. Within the Elektra house, plentiful light is provided from skylights and a double-story window wall on the garden side of the house. "There is no need for a window along the street," he says, "except to appease an idea of historicism...
...June 2001 to take his wife and four children to Afghanistan, where his parents believed he had established a school. Intelligence agents allegedly found his name on a money- transfer document from an al-Qaeda camp, and arrested him in Pakistan in February 2002, holding him in a windowless cell in Afghanistan until February 2003, when he was flown to Guantánamo. His family believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. Like all the estimated 680 inmates from 42 countries, Abbasi and Begg have not been charged and are not permitted lawyers. One captive, Mustafa Idr, an Algerian...
Only 37 percent of Americans actually have a windowless room in their home necessary to make a so-called shelter in place—or a safe place in the home—according to the survey...
...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...
Just hours after President Bush indicated that he would soon ask Congress to vote on whether to wage war against Iraq, he dispatched one of his best men to make the case. When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his way last Wednesday to a secure, windowless room on the top floor of the Capitol, nearly three-quarters of the Senators awaited him. They were confronting one of the gravest decisions lawmakers can face--sending troops into battle--and they expected to see the intelligence Rumsfeld and other Bush Administration officials have said would clinch the case that Saddam Hussein must...