Wright utilized open floor plans, screens, panel detailing, window placement and doors to organically integrate the home with nature, says Maier.

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While the company is promising lots of spectacle-free TVs with parallax screens in the next year, at its booth there was just a 42-inch 1080p 3T1 panel on the show floor.

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Questions to the panel followed from the floor.

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Among many recommendations, the panel concluded that separating the men from the women by floor within the same barracks isn't good enough.

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One TV set that won't be found on the show floor is the SED TV from Toshiba--a dazzling new panel that aims to blow plasma and LCD out of the water.

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He also has a nice computer with two flat-panel monitors on his desk, which sits in the middle of the small trading floor where he and his team of 20 analysts work.

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But a bipartisan group of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee -- the last panel that needs to clear health care legislation before it can be taken up on the Senate floor -- is considering dropping a government-funded public option in favor of nonprofit cooperatives that would negotiate collective policies for members.

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