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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...
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...
...living large in Mather penthouse. Oh yeah, he was also a governor, senator, and presidential candidate. Florida Democrat Bob Graham, now a fellow at the Institute of Politics, answered 15 questions last week about the Democratic Party, the White House tennis court, Larry Summers, and today's hot ambassadorships (hint: not Azerbaijan...
...boat with someone else. Collegiate sailing in two-person dinghies emphasizes fleet and team racing. The fact that the college sailing circuit is more focused on the two-person game has not altered Johnson’s overall focus. “There’s still a hint of luck involved, and it’s still impossible to have a perfect race,” he said. “It’s always a game of who makes the fewest mistakes and who stays the most consistent.” In a sport that punishes chance...
...most experienced commentators describe this year's Conservative Party conference as "young and sparky." The Tories, sparky? What happened to the comatose bunch of wrinklies with as much spark as a soggy book of matches? Of course, there were plenty of them at the conference, too, but the merest hint that it might soon be fashionable to be young and conservative in Britain confirms the significance of other developments. There's the retirement of Joschka Fischer, the iconic figure of the politics of rebellion; the discovery that many young European Catholics are more traditionally devout than their parents; even, perhaps...