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...drink, eat or wear. But that unflattering - and undeserved - image is now changing. As a natural resource with unique, health-boosting properties, seaweed is showing up in an increasing variety of products as companies find new ways to market the renewable marine resource. At its ultramodern factory in Brest, France, the laboratory company Science et Mer recently launched its own line of seaweed-based skin creams based on purported anti-aging agents in a certain blue micro-alga. Currently, some 100 firms in Brittany now base their business on seaweed, harvesting more than 100,000 tons a year. While seaweed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Shore Thing | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...four hours a day, Frenchman FRANCIS JOYON, 47, set a new world's speed record for a solo trip around the world. He began his voyage on Nov. 22 and, 72 days 22 hr. 54 min. and 22 sec. later, crossed the finish line off his home port of Brest--beating the old record by an astonishing 20 days. "I'm really happy to be home," he said upon his return. "You are really alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...Around the world, 40 million died of it within one year. Unusually, the 1918 flu did not come from Asia. The first outbreak began at a barracks in Kansas in the spring. The second, most virulent strain of the disease emerged simultaneously in September in Boston, Massachusetts; in Brest on the Atlantic coast of France; and in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cycle of Death | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...story, of course. It is not news on the scale of, say, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk or the Tet offensive, but we will have to redefine the word news if we say that the disappearance of a United States Congressman's mistress, and her possible murder (by whom? by him?), does not merit some notice in the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chandra and Gary — and the Predatory Media | 7/26/2001 | See Source »

...Paul Brest, president of the Hewlett Foundation, said his foundation presented the grant to MIT to encourage similar efforts in higher education...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Gets $11M for OpenCourseWare | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

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