The owner, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has this answer to the problem: drill tiny holes in the double-pane glass to relieve the excess vacuum suspected of causing the breakage.

Mr. Bentley created herringbone oak floors and replaced Rudolph's 12-foot single pane smoked glass front windows with clear double-pane glass framed in mahogany.

Each has double-pane insulating glass in them.

Other advantages of Heat Mirror include near complete ultraviolet protection (even the best low-e glass transmits about 26 percent of ultraviolet rays) and better noise insulation than with double-pane glass.

In front of her was a fake wrought-iron storm-door, with double-pane glass on the other side of the metal.

Q. I recently moved into a nine-year-old house that has windows with double-pane glass.

Meanwhile, back on the solar ranch, imagine having your morning coffee under a blooming hibiscus and looking out at a pond through a wall of double-pane glass.

He said the glass in the single-pane windows in the apartments was recently replaced with noise-muffling double-pane glass.

Growing interest among Pskov's elite has led the city to donate 30,000 rubles - about $1,000 - for double-pane glass in the cathedral's 49 windows.

But much of it is double-pane glass, with the outer layer tempered for strength and the inner laminated, like the windshield of an automobile, to prevent flying shards in case of an attack.