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Dangerous malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa have a new foe: the next-generation Olyset bed net, which is made of a durable plastic weave impregnated with the insecticide permethrin and stays potent for five years. Lighter, cheaper and more colorful than previous versions, the Nguvu ya Ajabu (Swahili for Magic Power) is being manufactured in Tanzania for cost-effective distribution. Also new: curtains and door screens cut from the same material...
Whether Sears and Kmart can do that by incorporating the best elements of much stronger brands in the industry remains unclear. "It could be more like a Bed Bath & Beyond meets Best Buy meets Target," says Marshal Cohen, chief fashion analyst at industry researcher NPD Group. "They've got a second chance here." But if Eddie Lampert can't make it work this time, it's likely to be their last.--With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Rancho Cucamonga and Jyoti Thottam and Dody Tsiantar/New York City
...same time, the first wave of porno chic lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled ever since...
...scattered a handful of M&M's and watched them float. Binnie took out a tiny model of SpaceShipOne and flew it around the cabin. Then that crazy hinge raises the wings, Earth's gravity kicks in, and SpaceShipOne becomes a glider. "It's like falling into a feather bed," says Melvill...
...soon as we finish a scene, I need to go back to being myself, because it freaks me out. But it was hard not to take this home with me," she says. "I would feel cheated on when I went home. There were weekend nights I would lie in bed instead of going out with my friends...