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...DIED. Bill Kirschner, 87, inventor, with his brother Don, of the first commercially viable fiber-glass skis and co-founder of K2, which became the largest U.S. ski manufacturer; in Seattle. Familiar with fiber glass from his work building animal cages, he sensed that the material could produce faster skis than the wood and metal ones then available. Introduced in 1964, the skis became favorites of Olympic and world champions and helped turn K2 into a winter-sports titan...
...Dino up.Nonetheless, the event’s roster still boasts 14 transportation-savvy groups, each of which has agreed to perform on the cheap. RH Fest will feature several prominent niche bands, including hardcore group Ampere, acclaimed Montreal electronica artist Tim Hecker, and much-buzzed DJ C, the local inventor of the hip-hop subgenre “Boston Bounce.” The event promises to be an important one—not just for Harvard, but for the New England underground music scene as well.“There aren’t enough punk or hardcore shows...
...peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic garden, a man with connections of every sort in several nations, and the inventor of a bulletproof lead coat—in 1884. He is never required to outrun a speeding bullet or stop the passage of time, but it wouldn’t exactly come as a surprise if he could. (At least Holmes had a drug problem to humanize...
Arcane as it may seem, the eBay case deals with the balance of power between patent holders and users, and corporate America is keenly interested in the verdict. Silicon Valley types from Yahoo! to Intel have lined up behind eBay, while more traditional companies such as General Electric (inventor Thomas Edison's outfit) and Procter & Gamble support MercExchange, along with the entire drug industry, whose business model hinges on patent protection...
...Lush has been doing that all her life. Her late father John, an engineer and inventor, taught her to make her own paints at age four. Her mother Ellie passed on the domestic skills she'd learned as a child in the 1940s. "We had to find a way of doing things with next to nothing," she says. "Clean, do plumbing - you name it." Lush recalls how, "when I was really little, Mum showed me how you could use rotten (spoiled) milk to get ink out of clothes. I thought it was magic...