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...Zhao, his fellow miners called him -- a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner's lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China's Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. "Many of them are very young--just boys," Zhao says, pausing to light...
...Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years it has produced new stores for Comme des Garçons in Paris, New York City and Tokyo, tableware and other design items for Alessi and Moser and a lamp for Fontana Arte. But it was that Selfridges department store, one of the most talked-about and widely published recent buildings in Britain, that put the firm seriously on the map, and even onto a British postage stamp, part of a series last year devoted to exceptional new buildings in Britain...
...directly into the land like the filling in a pita pocket. There are also no detectable corners in that snaking brontosaurus house, a proposal from 2005 that Kaplicky calls Villa. Although no one has opted yet to build one, Kaplicky's firm has adapted the form for a floor lamp...
...president of hardlines five years ago. She was instrumental in welcoming interior designers Thomas O'Brien and Victoria Hagan to the fold. O'Brien's lighting designs have resonated most brightly with customers, and you don't need to be Thomas Edison to work out why. A handsome desk lamp at Aero, O'Brien's high-end SoHo store, runs upwards of $1,000. The Target version, almost as spiffy, is a mere...
Worried that you left the iron on? iControl, which won the 2006 Electronic House Product of the Year Award for its system of cameras, sensors, lamp modules, thermostats and detectors, allows you to view live video and manage your utilities and appliances from a personal Web portal or any Web-enabled cell phone. The iControl starter kit costs $399, with a monthly subscription fee of $10. HomeSeer's $200 Home Control Software 2 can create elaborate automated routines that you can then control remotely via a Web page and activate by voice or simply by sending an e-mail...