The related flash and boom shattered glass in buildings and left about 1, 000 people hurt, authorities said.

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Glass broke in high-rise buildings, causing the injuries, the federal Emergency Ministry said in a statement.

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"All those tall buildings in Manhattan with glass exteriors and windows use soda ash, " says Nikhil Sen, GHCL's senior finance and strategy manager.

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Walls in outlying buildings were flattened and glass shattered.

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Gligorov, 78, suffered a head injury in the powerful blast, which sent glass flying and damaged buildings near the national parliament.

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He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.

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The evidence discovered was remarkably detailed: the plotters appeared to have been putting the targeted buildings under close observation, gathering such details as the thickness of the glass in their windows and the numbers of security guards on duty at various times.

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The white clapboard buildings and glass-fronted clubhouse complete a picture of polo that is found from Long Island in the U.S. to Palermo, Argentina places for the wealthy and well-connected to be seen and to take part in an ancient sport.

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