It was particularly funny when driving down the street: girls would look up and wave and flirt and I look out of the window.

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Although there is no permanent memorial to the tragedy on Giglio, many islanders are reminded about the disaster every time they look out of their window and see the wreck.

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Or just look a few hundred kilometres out of the window at the shoe-making plant which announced on December 9th that it would shut for several weeks, because sales to Brazil, its main market, had collapsed.

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Once, when she turned to look out the window, I saw in the mirror the curved line of her forehead, the upward slant of the bottom of her nose, the little slope between her nostrils and her upper lip, and I was struck by the fine liveliness of her profile.

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But when you look out of a plane window as you buckle-up ahead of landing at a UK airport, the revelation is how green the country appears.

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Rather than look out the window, they hunched over their computers and studied their formulas and their numbers, apparently unaware of the avalanche that was headed their way.

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