The water is full of darting and jumping fish, and the mangrove roots -- some the height of a double-decker bus -- tower over the boat.

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Tosca runs up a flight of stairs into the tower, and then a stunt double leaps from a window and, thanks to a wire, stops in midair.

NEWYORKER: Fiasco

As much as 150, 000 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel and about 12, 000 gallons of other petroleum products are on board the Kulluk, a double-hulled steel vessel with a helicopter landing pad and tower in the middle designed for drilling in Arctic waters.

CNN: Alaska drilling rig towed to harbor off Kodiak Island

This is demonstrated in the exhibition's giant model of a City Hall Tower for Philadelphia that was never built, a dramatic double helix derived from the discovery of DNA in 1953.

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Baghdad also now boasts what Iraqis claim is the Middle East's tallest tower (erected in competition with Kuwait), the region's only double-decker bridge and a complete reconstruction of the world's oldest palace at nearby Babylon.

ECONOMIST: Monumental

But the financing market for leveraged buyouts is getting squirmy, the music business itself is harder than ever to value, and with new tenanting prospects in double-dip-recession limbo as an ebullient recovery in office-building investment slows, the tower may become part of the collateral damage caused by the shuddering fall of EMI.

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