It's a world away from carefully planned Asian cities like Singapore -- which makes it perfectly suited for visitors who don't need their lives hermetically sealed in air-conditioned shininess.

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To no avail: The house is now sealed and air-conditioned, deprived of its direct connection to the sea, the gardens and the Florida air.

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The density of helium is one-seventh that of air, delivering significant advantages to HGST's sealed-drive platform.

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At Sealed Air's headquarters--a cheerless industrial park hard by Interstate 80 in Saddle Brook, N.

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At Sealed Air's headquarters--a cheerless industrial park hard by Interstate 80 in Saddle Brook, New Jersey--Chief William Hickey sits in a conference room with a playful grin spread across his face.

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In 2000 Sealed Air even entered a pumpkin-dropping contest in Iowa, releasing an 815-pound pumpkin--nicknamed "Gourdzilla"--onto layers of Bubble Wrap, from a 35-foot-high crane.

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Jackson, for example, serves on the committees of Sealed Air (nyse: SEE - news - people ), U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil (nyse: MRO - news - people ), where she is chair.

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But even Bubble Wrap needs innovation, and Sealed Air recently unveiled the latest improvement, the result of a 40-year quest: inflatable Bubble Wrap.

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Air is injected into the bubble rows by a squeaky pneumatic pump, then the sheets are heat-sealed on one edge.

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