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...Getting umbrellas off the streets doesn’t mean we just have to throw them away, and critics fearing landfills piled up with mountains of umbrellas should have their concerns eased. Walking on Cape Cod, Thoreau found that his umbrella worked better as a sail to catch tailwinds than as a shield against the rain. There are plenty of good uses the enterprising umbrella owner might put his or her old weapon towards. They can be retrofitted into reflectors for studio photographers, or made into makeshift punch bowls...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Umbrella Warfare | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...face a load of problems, not the least being their flags. Consider how hard it is for the NFL to come up with a helmet logo for a new team that doesn't look like the trademark of the Altria Group or a symbol on a super hero's cape - and they've got only 32 franchises to worry about. The tricolor flag has been done to death. When you get to the point that Luxembourg and the Netherlands are both a horizontal red, white and blue, with the only difference being that Luxembourg's blue is lighter - a Pantone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enough With the New Countries | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

After weeks of rolling blackouts across South Africa - one of which stranded hundreds of tourists at the top of Table Mountain when Cape Town's world famous cable car ground to a halt - the government on Friday declared a "national electricity emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Mines Go Dark in South Africa | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...revelations? First, that Princess Diana was thinking about buying a house in the U.S., either in Malibu or Cape Cod. And second, that she was also looking at a place in South Africa. Hardly earth-shattering. But all was not lost - Burrell had brought something back from Cheshire, a small pile of papers and photos he had used to write his two tell-all books. Along with the "secret" letter and a few other letters he had in Florida, these, Burrell said, were the last bits of physical proof of his time with the Princess. After the publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana Secret Outed! Court Let Down! | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

PLAYING CATCH-UP Orbiting 200 miles above Earth at 17,500 m.p.h., the space station passes over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2˝ days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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