However, in order to push forward the production of curved glass, Apple reportedly has purchased 200-300 glass cutting machines to be used by glass makers, said the sources.

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Also, I take excessive pleasure in returning several months' worth of our own empties at once, feeding them into our supermarket's can, glass and plastic recycling machines and departing with a heroic amount of cash sometimes as much as seven or eight dollars that I can spend on anything I want.

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All of which reminds us that, in the end, it is the men and women designing and using the product and not the machines themselves who must take responsibility for what Glass becomes.

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All 80 game tables and 850 slot machines form a kind of orbit around a multi-story glass sun by American artist Dale Chihuly, around which swarm scantily-clad resort guests, crisply-attired croupiers and more than a few celebrities (rumoured recent sightings include Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber).

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Mr. Coffey has worked alongside cleaning machines at times but said his most important jobs, including cleaning the glass observation deck at the Twin Towers, have always been done by human hands.

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