At its campus in Vila Mariana, a middle-class district of São Paulo, it has a media centre with a dozen studios, from which hour-long lessons are broadcast to other university centres across Brazil.
Beyond these was a runway from which, an hour earlier, we'd witnessed the takeoff of an unmarked Boeing 737: a military shuttle transporting workers from the N.T.T.R. to a secure terminal at McCarran Airport, in Las Vegas.
Fittingly for a company that prides itself on its pioneering spirit, it is the first of its kind; combining lateral, linear, jumping and retrograde hour functions to power an unusual time display from which the hours are read laterally across the side and the minutes via a dial at the top.
It is a world in itself and one from which I accumulate hours of pleasure.
The frequency of the stops, and the depth of the water-filled craters, seem to defeat the Medellín troops who, time and again, drive straight into the holes, from which it takes hours to emerge.
After 18 months, she "kind of chilled out about it" and used some of the emails as the basis for a short scratch performance and slideshow, from which the new hour-long show has grown.
He met Murmelstein in 1975 in Rome for what turned out to be a 17-hour interview, from which he fashioned the 3-hour-and-40-minute "Last of the Unjust".
It was the NUS's darkest hour, from which it has struggled to recover.
Or fly on SAS via Stockholm to Kiruna, from which Abisko is one hour by train.
She was escorted to the make-up room, from which she emerged an hour later as another person entirely.
