Rather than using rubber hoses to connect the stationary and moving parts of the building, 3sixty's ingenious plumbing system employs horizontal ring-shaped pipes made of steel.

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Within our system of horizontal federalism and separation of powers at the federal (and, separately, the state) level, courts do not have the power to enforce their judgments in the trenches.

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That is similar to the way the human visual system works, with particular clusters of nerve cells in the brain adapted to respond to, say, horizontal lines, or to lines that run on diagonals.

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