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Pens made from discarded computer printers. Pencil cases fashioned from old tires. These eye-catching and eco-friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company - called, natch, Remarkable - has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil...
...relax on a Tyrolean holiday. In one photo Sophie Täuber-Arp holds the fanciful Dada Head, 1920, which she constructed; the actual painted sphere is just a few rooms away. Her husband and frequent collaborator, Jean Arp, is seen with a monocle-like disk over his left eye - the Dadaists, fascinated with mechanization and also repelled by it, often used geometric shapes in their art. Another photograph shows Francis Picabia at the wheel of an open-topped sports car. Picabia used the same image in an assemblage also on view. He pasted the photograph on canvas, drew...
...Residing in a state where gaming outside a casino is illegal, she finds it hard as a woman to pick up live games as often as she would like. At her computer, she can ante up anytime and enjoys playing without the locker-room humor she has endured when eye to eye with opponents...
...said the recent destruction after Hurricane Katrina served as an eye-opener for Americans...
...names and ages, is a boxed-off set of questions that the form describes as strictly optional. They are questions that concern applicants’ places of birth, their mother tongues, and, most notably, their ethnic groups: pigeonholes that allow colleges to select their entering classes with an eye to diversity and minority representation...