Word: compaction
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...with older customers, are taking note. Five years ago, Chung says, you wouldn't see 35- to 40-year-old women in ads. Now it's common. "Call it the Desperate Housewives phenomenon," says Chung. Christie Brinkley, 51, appears in the new ads for CoverGirl Advanced Radiance Age-Defying Compact Foundation, and actresses like Susan Sarandon, 59, can be seen hawking Revlon foundation. Upscale department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue are putting older women in their advertising...
...everything from a checkbook organizer to a fax machine. In many cases, the pen-based devices can even make and take cellular telephone calls. ! 8 Bose Audio System Listeners got an earful from Bose as it unveiled the sleek Lifestyle 5 Music System. At $1,499, it includes a compact-disc player, a remote control that works around corners or through walls, and compact, cube-shaped speakers that deliver crisp, distortion-free sound...
...decade, scientists had been searching for dark matter -- the mysterious stuff whose gravity seemed to hold the universe together but which nobody had ever seen. This year they found it -- or at least some of it -- in the form of Jupiter-like clumps of matter known as massive compact halo objects, or MACHOS...
...from a friend who knew that I was just vain enough to hang up pictures of myself,” he chuckles. “You can write that down.” Matsui replaced the drab dorm lamps with the mod light of a movie projector. The compact machine rests on her desk, poised to illuminate the opposite wall, blank except for a clothesline of scattered photographs. Matsui also mounted two gilded wood carvings, trinkets from the pair’s trip to Bangkok. “We live in the Quad. We have to entice our friends somehow...
...asks us to sacrifice "four for the planet"--four incandescent 100-watt bulbs, to be replaced with 23-watt compact fluorescent bulbs. A 100-watter burns through $35.04 in energy over three years, while a 23-watter costs $8.06. A fluorescent bulb costs $11 compared with 75 for an incandescent but lasts more than 13 times as long. Total annual savings for switching four lights, counting the cost of the bulbs...