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...Energy was America's competitive advantage. While Paris was bursting with ideas, New York was getting them built. The Paris furniture and fashion designers who were setting world standards began to find their masterpieces knocked off by New York department stores and the emerging Seventh Avenue garment district. A dressing table by French designer Léon Jallot is a riot of color and molded wood - oops, that's the copy made in New York for Lord & Taylor's department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...naked eye. Still, the phenomenon is not as uncommon as it might seem. Every time you ice skate, you experience something similar, as the shared properties of skate blade against ice create a thin film of water of a very particular thickness on which you, after a fashion, levitate. What makes the Harvard and NIH work so promising is its nano scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning More About Levitation | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...more than a hundred years behind terrestrial conservation," says Nelson. And there's still a lot of ground to make up. A study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimated that less than 0.1% of the world's ocean territory is protected in some fashion - even as the ocean comes under increasing threat from overfishing, acidification and global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Bush's Last Act of Greenness | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...unusual consequence of the ensuing chaos has manifested itself in the Mexican world of fashion. Colombian designer Miguel Caballero has opened a new shop in Mexico City that is drawing worldwide attention for its merchandise: luxury bulletproof clothing. With prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to $7,000, Caballero’s leather jackets, polo shirts, coats, shorts and ruffled tuxedo shirts are becoming increasingly popular with political leaders and celebrities from around the world...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mexico's Newest Luxury Item | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...withstand ammunition from weapons including a nine-millimeter pistol, a submachine gun, a .44 Magnum, a 3.57 revolver and even knives, allowing customers to escape gunshots and stabs with little more than a bruise. According to Caballero’s web site, titled “High Security Fashion,” his multiple lines of fitted jackets and elegant collared shirts provide the opportunity to “minimize…risk and preserve…life.” In fact, Caballero, who has come to be known as the “Armani of armor...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mexico's Newest Luxury Item | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

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