Instead of working on his thesis, Keith spent most of two years holed up in the family garage, stripping the body off a Triumph Spitfire and building a new shell from scratch, using foam and 700 pounds of plaster of paris.
This book, which describes the descendants of a civilisation that has converted the material in its planets into a giant ringlike structure around its sun, was inspired by Freeman Dyson's idea that a truly technologically advanced species would endeavour to capture as much light as possible by building a spherical shell around its central star.
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We go up a concrete stairway, without rails, into a bare concrete shell of a building.
In the case of the packaging factory, the government provided the land and the shell of a building.
Witnesses said the explosion occurred in the top of the building, indicating either that a shell had hit it or that a bomb had been planted in the roof.
Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.
He works on clams and is building robot versions of them to find out how the shape of an animal's shell affects its chances of survival.
The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.
Proposals include a building a gas-to-liquids plant on the Gulf Coast like the giant Pearl GTL plant Shell has finally finished in Qatar.
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The wheel is basking in a bright red glow while the Shell Centre has also been transformed with images of red poppies tumbling down the side of the building.
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