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Currently very popular is the leather cord within African trading bead on it, she said. Also ingreat demand are amber products. Chanel-typenecklaces with big pearls and beaded clothing...

Author: By Ishaan Seth, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bead Shop Opens On Church St. | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

Though the concept of the bead is an ancientone, Beadworks seems to have no trouble sellingthe idea to today's consumer; the shop is alreadybustling...

Author: By Ishaan Seth, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bead Shop Opens On Church St. | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...scheme to market a data base that would have allowed anyone with a personal computer to purchase a list of names, buying habits and income levels of selected households. The system would have permitted small businesses such as dry cleaners, pharmacies and pizza take-out restaurants to get a bead on their local customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assaulting Our Privacy: Nowhere to Hide | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...revolution of the tenants' pets. Like the images, the conclusion is another object added to Arenas' string, so that by the end of the novel it is as if we hold in our hands not a cohesive story, but a stack of pages held together only by a bead of glue...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: This Doorman Doesn't Hold Doors | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

Even though the cushion had not prevented them from breathing, the air they exhaled had become trapped in the beads. So when they inhaled, they drew in stale air that was low in oxygen. "You end up breathing back in what you've just breathed out," Thach explains. "All the oxygen gets used up." Adults have enough lung power to suck in sufficient oxygen through the pillow, but Kemp and Thach determined that babies could not. By testing rabbits that had the same lung size as infants, the pediatricians proved that rebreathing into the bead-filled cushions was fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of The Pillow | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

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