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...evening in the 1930s, Henry Ford wore a new suit to a gala dinner he was throwing at his Dearborn, Mich., car factory. The suit, reportedly, was soft to the touch. It was also made from soybean fiber...
...automobile baron was nursing an obsession with all the possible uses of a crop that was then being planted throughout post-Depression America. The gala guests that night were served only soy-based food, and Ford regularly tried to incorporate the pulse into cars, using it for everything from upholstery fabric to experimental paneling. What Ford saw in the hardy, adaptable beans was industrial potential, and over 70 years later, his vision has come to pass. Today, soy shows up in about 75% of the food on offer at the supermarket, from chocolate to margarine, and the industry responsible...
...Apple encroached on Nokia's turf when it introduced its much-heralded iPhone, Nokia is striking back by taking aim at Apple's dominance in the digital music biz. On Wednesday Aug. 29, in a gala event in London, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo announced that his company will soon fire up its long-anticipated music downloading service. The Nokia Music Store will go live later this year as a crucial component of a new Nokia website called Ovi. Competing against downloading sites like Apple's iTunes, it will let consumers download millions of songs directly onto their...
...What do you like to see? I stick with a lot of dramas and horror movies. I try to get the most obscure ones possible. I think about 70 or 80 percent of the films I saw last year haven't come out yet. And I go to one gala, just so I can be into the whole Festival vibe. I went to Babel (2006) and saw Brad Pitt...
...Roman set designer, Dante Ferretti, created a breathtaking colonnade of columns lit from within. And on Saturday, Valentino will show his haute couture collection in the Baglivi and Incisa halls of the Monumental Complex of the Santo Spirito in Sassia, the oldest charitable institution of Rome, followed by a gala dinner in the Villa Borghese gardens. If this is 45, one guest wondered, what will 50 be like...