With a similar model beginning to take shape in Europe and the U.S., he is eyeing joint ventures and purchases.

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On the other side of this entry room are Woods's 1988 plans and model for the "Einstein Tomb, " an orbiting spacecraft in the shape of a cruciform cenotaph that would have carried the physicist's ashes throughout the universe, were they not already scattered on the Atlantic Ocean.

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