In addition to seeing and barely believing the animals so up- close, an Endeavor expedition offers long and short hikes, coastal explorations by kayaks or Zodiacs, swimming, snorkeling, or floating in a glass bottom boat for amazing undersea viewing.

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Suchen looked at the slice of lemon floating among the ice cubes in her glass and blushed, as though the man were her companion.

NEWYORKER: Alone

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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This is a movie of gleaming surfaces -- veteran DP Roger Deakins turns a glass skyscraper at night into a funhouse hall of mirrors, and a floating Macau casino is like an oasis in the black sea.

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