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...like “Library of a Poet” (1991), which is made of cardboard columns, and the “Paper Arbor” (1989), which he designed for Japan’s Odawara Festival, he is also known for his humanitarian work. Ban’s lightweight, inexpensive and simple paper tube structures, dubbed “log cabins,” were used to create temporary housing in 1994 for Tutsi refugees from genocide in Rwanda and in 1995 for victims of the Kobe earthquake...
...dubbed “evolved wood,” may quite possibly be the perfect building material: they are cheap, recyclable, capable of bearing large loads, can be quickly assembled and can be made waterproof and fire-resistant. Structurally speaking, the paper tubes and the plywood, both lightweight and relatively flexible, form the bulk of the structure while metal or wood reinforce joints and add strength...
...three tees and three pennies in his pocket when he plays. Fred Couples only uses balls with ones and threes on them. Golfers may be the most superstitious of all pro athletes, but no good-luck charm has swept the tour like a little ornament called the QLink. A lightweight pendant worn as a necklace, it supposedly helps the body ward off electromagnetic fields and increases mental stamina. Clarus Products International has sold more than 200,000 of the pendants since 1999 and claims that 300 pros are now wearing them. The company cites scientists who tout the pendant...
...resources to develop the project, eventually landing some $60 million in cash and in-kind help. British pop band Blur and artist Damien Hirst gave works that Beagle will carry to Mars. Eventually the Department of Trade and Industry kicked in an $8 million grant. "Just building a lightweight, university-driven probe, and showing that much less demanding technology is needed, is in itself a triumph," says respected biomedical engineer Heinz Wolff. How will the probe know if there is life on Mars? The planet's surface is a dry and frozen desert, seemingly hostile to any life-forms...
...wasn't loud!" she says in response to a letter from a designer criticizing her plaid suit. "It was black and gray. How can that be loud?" Rowley's friends have recently succeeded in a longstanding crusade: they persuaded her to replace her oversize glasses, telling her that lightweight lenses would save her time and energy while running because she wouldn't need to keep pushing them...