"Right, " I said, a shadow of doubt, a cloud floating across my sun.

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Across town, if the architects and couple Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas keep to schedule, their Nuvola -- a glass conference centre that was designed to recall a floating cloud -- will open in 2013.

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Similarly, a pale room needs some anchoring items to stop it from floating off on a cloud of pastel marshmallows.

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As an object, the Constitution has more in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls than with what we now think of as writing: pixels floating on a screen, words suspended in a digital cloud, bubbles of text.

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