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...sports car. "This is designed to be an extension of the human body," says Yoshiaki Kato, chief engineer of the fully electronic, drive-by-wire concept vehicle, which is powered by lithium-ion batteries and has an exterior made of biodegradable, plant-based materials. The 3-ft.-wide, leaf-shaped i-unit is nearly 6 ft. tall when positioned upright but drops its center of gravity and reclines into a sports-car position for traveling at speeds of up to 25 m.p.h. Sensors allow the vehicle to detect obstacles. Place the steering unit to the left or right - or even...
...potatoes, tomatoes and onions from the mainland and cooking WFP rice. Every four or five days a fresh group of pirates would arrive to relieve their colleagues. On board, they passed the time cleaning their weapons, marching in haphazard formation on the deck, and chewing miraa, a mildly narcotic leaf popular in Somalia. They shot at any boats that came too close. One day an associate came from the mainland with a note that said, "the Somali Navy has captured your vessel...
...BOTANICALS AND HERBS Black cohosh is moderately effective in relieving many symptoms (but not hot flashes). Like other botanicals, such as red-clover leaf, dong quai and ginseng root, it needs more research...
...Side effects may include weight gain. PHYTOESTROGENS Estrogen-like compounds in soy may reduce symptoms, but studies are equivocal and product quality has not been standardized. BOTANICALS AND HERBS Black cohosh is moderately effective in relieving many symptoms (but not hot flashes). Like other botanicals, such as red-clover leaf, dong quai and ginseng root, it needs more research. - By Coco Masters
Over the next 15 or so years, as the metal oxidizes and turns green, the leaf-shadow illusion will deepen, drawing the $135 million museum further into the surrounding vegetation even as its metallic diagonals continue to resist being absorbed visually by nature. "We like to talk about paradox," says Herzog, "this thin layer masking things. In some lights this building almost disappears. In a different light it's very sculptural. Then in San Francisco you have the fog, which penetrates the perforations. We like that...