Jobs said that Apple is essentially a software company whose hardware is a beautiful box for the product, but that close coupling of hardware and software was generally necessary in consumer electronics.

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In the course of introducing a film at the Sheridan Opera House, a beautiful little jewel box of a theater that dates back to the 19th century, a bright young woman said Sandra Bernhard had played there.

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And with the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host, The Moral Instruments: City of Bones (August 23rd) unfairly bears the burden of proving that female-friendly young-adult literary adaptations can in fact succeed aside from The Hunger Games and Twilight.

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Not only has The Twilight Saga begat Snow White and the Huntsman and The Hunger Games, genuine mega-action franchises fronted by Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence respectively, but the box office failures of Beautiful Creatures and The Host were not held up as proof that Twilight was a fluke.

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We're also happy to see that several of our favorite solar houses from the show made it to the top ranks, including Germany's elegant IKAROS house, the ultra-efficient Armadillo Box, and Finland's beautiful wooden Luukku house.

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The Elephants started with intent as Toure's beautiful pass set the surging Kader Keita free in the box only for goalkeeper Ri-Myong-Guk's outstretched legs to prevent a goal in the opening minute.

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You get the feeling that if you reach into that box in 10 years time and pull it out, it will still look beautiful.

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