James and his welders machined, riveted and hammered 18-gauge steel and razor-thin aluminum into a space-age-looking vehicle, applying some of the same construction methods Airstream uses in its shiny luxury trailers.

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The carving out of interior space involves extensive use of super-thin injection-molded plastic pieces on the dash and doors, without much of anything behind them, as well as seats thinner than a jailhouse mattress.

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They walked past thin columns of water at the entrance into an open space, where various objets--an oversize ceramic head and an eye-catching blue glass vessel, for example--sat among high-tech showers, whirlpools, sinks and an oval-shaped toilet, all displayed on pedestals like museum pieces, the better to bring in customers.

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Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.

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So too is the lack of space in India's jam-packed city centres, which means shopping malls grow tall and thin, limiting scope for giant multiplexes.

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