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...around? British inventor Trevor Baylis has. Baylis, whose previous brainstorms include a clockwork radio, has announced the founding of a company to manufacture shoes that produce power using the natural motion of walking. This summer Baylis plans to test his shoes in Africa in a walk across the Namib Desert during which he'll place a phone call to PM Tony Blair (who else?) using only power made by the footwear. That's one small step...
...were dumped on a desert island with few supplies and 15 contentious comrades, a few questions would present themselves. Are you a people person? Would you eat rats? Could you start a fire with your eyeglasses? But the ultimate question would be, Are you in the demo...
...things were looking up. Toscannini's opened in the Square. Enter the Iced Vietnamese. I spent the summer after sophomore year working at Let's Go and walked to work most days from Somerville. Emerging from Dexter gate, I felt like a man who has been wandering in a desert and has just spotted an oasis. The sun was usually high in the sky already, and I squinted as I crossed the street. The Iced Vietnamese is composed of iced coffee with sweet condensed milk. The sweet syrupy milk tends to settle at the bottom, but when swished around well...
...superficial that connection may sometimes be. Victims of gang wars, drive-by shootings and drug deaths are instantly memorialized with murals on walls in the inner cities. Serious changes in national attitudes may also be reflected in these projects. Places like the Manzanar National Historical site in the California desert, where an internment camp for Japanese Americans was located in World War II, and the 42 sites dedicated to the bloody history of the civil rights movement indicate that the country is as interested in the shadows of its history as in the light...
ADMIT IT: unless you get cornered by a grizzly bear on your summer vacation or go into labor while trekking across the Mojave Desert, there are few times in life when you really need a cell phone. More often than not, you're just chatting with a friend while stuck in rush-hour traffic or asking your wife what flavor ice cream she wants you to pick up at the grocery store. As handy as cell phones can be, for many consumers they're just a fun way to pass the time...