The governorate refused to grant permission to trade unions and youth groups for demonstrations in Taksim Square due to a large scale construction project in the area.

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The full-scale 1, 900 square foot house sits inside a steel cage rigged up with 60 pressure boxes which can simulate the effects of a Category 5 hurricane (see photos).

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Fees are charged by the square foot and are on a sliding scale that takes into account the finish and any practical challenges, such as scaffolding, travel or tight work spaces (as, say, on a yacht).

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The salvation of the theaters of the former Great White Way was always a promised but ambiguous add-on to the state and city's large-scale redevelopment schemes for the Times Square area, clearly secondary to the size of the real estate deals to be made.

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It's 13, 000 square feet inside this big building, which makes it about one-fiftieth scale, and it's part of the city along the lake that is being recreated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in tiny little bits.

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We'd be interested to see how this might scale down onto something with a little less display going on, but the Note II's ample square-inchage certainly makes this a feature worth using.

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