He was staring down at the checkerboard pattern on the linoleum floor, as if it were a code he was trying to crack.

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The shimmering long striped gowns and those made from a tiny glitzy checkerboard pattern that clung to the body, which closed the show, had everyone snapping photographs and cheering for Jacobs.

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When they are painted onto a surface, this arrangement forces them into a kind of checkerboard pattern which makes it much harder for barnacles and mussels to stick, according to David Williams, who is in charge of commercialising the idea at AkzoNobel, a multinational chemical company.

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