Security guards manned the archway in front of the square blocking access while a makeshift sign pinned to a board outlined the legal situation.
An Israeli start-up company, BioExplorers, has harnessed the rodents' olfactory abilities to develop an explosive-detecting system that could have applications in the aviation industry.The New Scientist explains how the machine would work:Along one side of an archway [in a device similar to a full-body scanner], a detection unit contains three concealed cartridges, each of which houses eight mice.
The imposing communist-style archway that informs travellers officially that they are leaving China is a less effective border marker than the change in the Karakoram Highway itself: the paved road, which I had grown accustomed to since leaving the Chinese border town of Tashkurgan in the morning, deteriorates into a muddy, pot-holed track.
A Chinese-looking archway welcomes travellers to Tawang district, and from here on are views of snow-capped peaks and the Himalayas proper.Tawang itself is breathtaking.
The archway marks the beginning of a 17km road lined with palm trees, which cannot disguise the dusty emptiness that extends for miles on either side.
The scene (says a dateline under the chapter heading, 'Prologue') is the Louvre, late at night: Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.
He was a victim not of treacherous tribesmen but of an elephant he was riding, which reared and brained him on a stone archway he was passing through.
During their 4-hour shifts in the detector, the mice mill about in a common area in each cartridge as air is passed over people paused in the archway and through the cartridge.
The prints on show here, especially one of the back of a statue of Amenhotep III, and one of a stone archway near Thebes, are powerfully abstract.While it is true that long exposure times were required for these images, humanity is not frozen here.
That formal Baroque-inspired layout is pierced by a monumental archway, built a century later, marking the entry north into the central city.
The fortifications around the old city have been destroyed, but the majestic archway, the Porte de Paris (1682), still stands.
