Five partners of Draper Fisher Jurvetson gathered in their small, glassed-in conference room to hear a new business pitch at 8:30 one morning last spring.

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But they still hold out the possibility of sudden wealth, if the grabber-arm can avoid the giant cuddly toys and instead unlock, in a glittering torrent, the glassed-in trove of silver.

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For nature lovers, Atlantis offers the world's largest collection of outdoor marine habitats (11 lagoons, including ones with hammerheads, stingrays or turtles) and walk-in aquariums in which quests can watch marine life from glassed-in tunnels.

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Next month, the Van Gogh Museum will reopen after its second modification in fourteen years, with a third planned, for a glassed-in entrance hall.

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And the building, with its deliberate rows of windows and its glassed-in porches at either end.

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Does this mean the pendulum will swing back to the days of the glassed-in mainframe computing center?

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The few workers on duty keep an eye on progress from glassed-in observation posts above the shop floor, watching multiple computer screens.

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Rooms feature vibrant colours with open-plan, glassed-in bathrooms and unique, whimsical paintings.

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Above that perched a glassed-in belvedere, unbearably hot, where he could look out over long flat plots of woods that had once been cotton fields.

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In a glassed-walled conference room overlooking downtown Boston, traders at Harvard Management Co.

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