The loneliness was very much like sea glass, if sea glass could be a state of mind.

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Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.

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Yannis Stournaras has decided to keep the glass in its half-shattered state, as a monument to what he hopes was the lowest point in Greece's financial crisis.

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The pair played behind glass at one of Russia's top museums, the State Tretyakov Gallery, watched by hundreds of chess fans.

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"Cinderella found one glass skipper, " said Gregg Marshall, coach of Wichita State, which beat No. 1-seeded Gonzaga and No. 2 Ohio State on its way to adding some mid-major mojo to the Final Four.

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The gypsies sort mostly paper, iron and glass out of the rubbish, and sell their day's work back to the state company.

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About 3, 000 buildings were damaged -- mostly with broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said.

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Glass shattered across 200, 000 square kilometers (77, 220 square miles), the state-run RIA Novosti news agency cited the Chelyabinsk regional emergencies ministry as saying Saturday.

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