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...iconic moment in American history studied by generations of schoolkids. On a storm-tossed June day in 1752, Ben Franklin, joined by his son William, hoisted a kite with a wire poking out of it high over Philadelphia. As the skies darkened, the kite's hemp string bristled with electricity, like a cat's fur after being stroked. Franklin brought his knuckles close to a brass key dangling from the end of the string. A spark leaped through the air, giving him a powerful jolt--and immeasurable pleasure. No longer could anyone doubt that the small electrical charges created...
...shade of vast Moreton Bay Fig trees on market days. Friendly stallholders sell local produce (everything from mangoes to organic jams to macadamia-nut coffee) as well as a rich array of local art, handicrafts, New Age exotica and colorful clothing. If you think you might look fetching in hemp, this is the place for you, baby...
...last remaining human colony, which Barrett describes as a very "civilized" place, even though it looks a lot like a muddy cave. In these scenes, she avoided artificial and stiff fabrics in favor of draping, natural fibers. "Everything [in Zion] is grown hydroponically," she explains. "They grow flax and hemp and things you can weave." (The fact that this is never mentioned in the film gives you a hint of the totality of the Wachowski brothers' narrative vision.) Barrett says she based these outfits on ancient Indian and Tibetan patterns, designing textured garments manifestly created by humans and not machines...
...function as a dance space, as a theater space, as a space for installations, as a soundstage. I once saw a production in Budapest a few years ago of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which the audience was seated on 500 individually hung swings, and the hemp that was used to hang the swings became the farce of Shakespeare’s play, and that was on night one; and all those swings were bussed up to the grid. The next night, there was a very realistic play, it took place in an operating room; the following...
George W. Bush--whose party received more than $10 million from the auto industry during the 2002 election cycle--appointed Runge, so you know he's not padding around NHTSA's headquarters in hemp sandals. And yet during a Q&A last month at an auto conference in Dearborn, Mich., he said, "I wouldn't buy my kid a two-star rollover vehicle if it was the last one on earth." According to NHTSA's website, 22 SUVs in the current model year have a rollover-resistance rating of two stars out of five, including the Jeep Grand Cherokee...