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...company has raised some $100 million from investors, among them Rho Ventures, based in New York City, and IBM. The idea is to sell the kiosk for about $60,000 to retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change...
FOOTPRINTS Shoe marks in anything from dust and dirt to blood or mud can be collected. To pick up a shoeprint in dust, experts use a sheet of electrified mylar that picks up dust like a big piece of Scotch tape. Soil tracked by an assailant could reveal where he has been or where he lives. Prints may also reveal the size, style and make of a shoe...
...Chopra knows something I don’t, I guess I’d better dust off the old suit of armor. Otherwise, come Nov. 7, I’ll roll out of bed at 8 am, just as I do every Thursday morning, and brace myself for the simplicity of preregistration...
...stored in a carrier bag, including some of the young princes William and Harry in the bath, a letter Charles sent Diana on their 13th wedding anniversary "with lots of love," a computer disc detailing her personal accounts, a ceremonial sword, "One Lilac Dress with Beige Hanger and Cellophane Dust Cover," 13 cards and letters that "Mummy" wrote William, including one that begins "My darling Wombat." The bric-a-brac of the dead is always sad. That Diana's was picked through in a courtroom full of tabloid reporters taking shorthand was doubly so, but also powerfully reminiscent...
...drops to 10% in large swaths of the north and even zero across the south. With dope growers exacerbating the shortage, centuries-old water holes and underground courses have evaporated. Crops downstream of hemp fields have withered and failed. With nothing to eat or drink and plagued by choking dust, entire villages and towns have emptied. "Whole parts of the country are turning into desert," says Brequeville. "And that's irreversible?there's no way back from the desert...