On 30 October, the cube-shaped St Regis Tianjin opens on the banks of the Hai River in this city 110km southeast of Beijing.

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Dublin, who also played for Aston Villa, Coventry City and Manchester United played The Dube, a cube-shaped drum played with the hands.

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Built in 1800, Hank McNeil's Neo-Georgian 13, 000-square-foot Rittenhouse Square mansion is red brick and cube-shaped, with rectangular double-hung windows all aligned and a red front door flanked by Corinthian columns.

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He might not choose flamboyant roses or cube-shaped metal pots for his own gardens, but if a client has a strong preference for such embellishments, he'll find a graceful way to make them work.

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Others the cube-shaped iMac, Apple TV failed to take off.

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The cube-shaped, two-story building is so airtight that Mr. Konkol, a 55-year-old family physician who bikes 16 miles every day to his practice, knows it is windy outside only from seeing trees moving through the window.

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Then came an 10-year hiatus during which he had high-profile successes (buying Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before they made it big with "Toy Story") and failures (founding NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on).

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Superbot is in fact a modular robotic system consisting of individual cube-shaped units as small as one square inch that are capable of attaching themselves to and communicating with other modules to create larger robots capable of carrying out a wide range of tasks.

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