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Clear Water Revival Inventor: Vestergaard Frandsen Group Availability: Early 2006; $3 and up To Learn More: lifestraw.com The price of a caffe latte - about $3 - really can save a life. The LifeStraw, a beefed-up drinking straw designed by the Swiss-based company Vestergaard Frandsen, uses seven types of filters, including mesh, active carbon and iodine, to make 185 gal. of water clean enough to drink. It can prevent waterborne illnesses, such as typhoid and diarrhea, that kill at least 2 million people every year in the developing world. It can also create safe drinking water for victims of hurricanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Healthy Options | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...ROWING Cameron Baerg, Saskatoon, Sask. Jonathan Beare, Toronto Iain Brambell, Brentwood Bay, B.C. David Calder, Victoria, B.C. Karen Clark, Delta, B.C. Jacqui Cook, Burlington, Ont. Anna-Marie DeZwager, Victoria, B.C. Scott Frandsen, Kelowna, B.C. Kyle Hamilton, Richmond, B.C. Gavin Hassett, Victoria, B.C. Tom Herschmiller, Comox, B.C. Andrew Hoskins, Edmonton Christopher Jarvis, St. Catharines, Ont. Mara Jones, Aurora, Ont. Sabrina Kolker, West Vancouver Adam Kreek, London, Ont. Kevin Light, Sidney, B.C. Jonathan Mandick, Edmonton, Alta. Darcy Marquardt, Richmond, B.C. Roslyn McLeod, Burlington, Ont. Fiona Milne, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Andreanne Morin, Montreal Sarah Pape, Toronto Jeffrey Powell, Winnipeg, Man. Brian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canadians at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...study the law. Admission would not be easy after his admittedly poor academic performance at DePauw, but here a personal contact was helpful. He knew the admissions director of the Indiana University law school in Indianapolis -- through his family, as he knew most older people. This admissions director, Kent Frandsen, was a judge in the little town of Lebanon, outside Indianapolis. Another prominent citizen there was Quayle's grandmother, Martha Pulliam, who was given the Lebanon paper as her own in the divorce. (She was the one Quayle would live with.) Frandsen gave Quayle a break, something he was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Frandsen did him another favor when he called in Quayle and another student, Frank Pope, and asked them to start a student newspaper for the night school. Before, there had been just a mimeographed sheet. Frandsen wanted to begin life in the new building with a real paper, and he allotted money to the project. Quayle became the editor of the journal he and Pope called the Barrister. It is unlikely Frandsen would have asked Quayle to do this if he doubted he could manage the newspaper along with courses at night and work during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Marilyn Tucker was as bright as the women in Quayle's study group, and her uncle, the Indiana secretary of state, was a Jenner man. She and Quayle were sure of each other from the start and were married in 1972 by the friend of both their families, Kent Frandsen. It was a fine political marriage by Indiana standards, but after passing the bar exam in 1974 Quayle went back to Huntington, to his father's small paper, without announced political ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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