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...part of the look is "trip toys," or out-of-kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
...superpowers. Half the sales price of the pens will go to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a charity for victims of catastrophes around the world. Parker, whose pens have been used to sign the arms-control treaties, is offering a range of instruments from a humble ball-point for $30 to a top-of-the-line fountain pen for $300. Each carries an emblem forged from the melted-down missiles...
Thirty-nine nations are negotiating in Geneva to draft a treaty banning production, use or stockpiling of chemical weapons. But verification will probably be frustrating. Chemical weapons are ridiculously easy to make; even a chemical used in ink for ball-point pens can readily be treated to form mustard gas. Verification proposals include "black box" sensors installed at chemical plants to analyze randomly what is being produced; another idea is to aim laser infrared radars at smokestack plumes. While such techniques would not be perfect, says a U.S. official, "chemical weapons are so difficult to control that any slowing down...
...chin is cupped in one hand, a ball-point pen in the other, and opened on his lap is a large notebook with lined pages. Occasionally he stirs, his eyes focus, and in tidy, cramped handwriting he adds a sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...
...broader financial relationship with Cardmembers," reads an internal marketing piece. "In time, we plan to offer several savings and investment products" -- IRAs and annuities, for example. With millions of affluent cardholders, Amex can quickly accumulate tens of billions of dollars in deposits with nary a bank branch or broken ball-point...