The company is China's largest housing contractor and built the futuristic Water Cube for the Beijing Olympics.

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Whatever the truth is, we shall find out at the Beijing Water Cube on November 27, so stay tuned.

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Roberts' incredible success inside the Beijing Water Cube in September was rewarded with the honour of carrying the Great Britain flag at the Paralympics closing ceremony.

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Among her inventions was a sort of bouillon cube that, when dissolved in water, produced a cola-like drink.

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The water is afloat with glassy splinters, hardly bigger than an ice cube, ranging up to colossal tabular icebergs, some the size of several football pitches.

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We placed the decorative absinthe spoon on top of the glass, a sugar cube on top of that, and let the fountain drip ice water over it for several minutes.

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