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...weigh more than 200 lbs. Plasma sets (named for the pixels of gas in the screen that are turned into plasma by an electrical charge) can sometimes experience "burn-in," when an image, such as a station identifier, leaves an imprint on the screen. The images on LCD (liquid-crystal display) and plasma screens, while usually bright and clear, may not have the best color contrast. Green grass against a blue sky, Catapano says, may look better on a top-quality conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plasma's Bright Future | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...container of Mrs. Meyer's dish soap and $18 for a 34oz. bottle of Good Home's Laundry fragrance, those are clearly luxury items. (A 25-oz. bottle of Palmolive or Joy dishwashing liquid can be had for just $1.99.) What customers are paying for is not only costly ingredients like French lavender oil and fancy packaging but also some fairly sophisticated chemistry. Combining aromatic oils with cleaning agents is not so easy to do, explains Avery Gilbert, president of Synesthetics Inc., a firm based in Montclair, N.J., that provides consultations to the fragrance industry. "The soap base has chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smell of Clean | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...fire extinguisher when he went to the Boyds' to pick up Wanda for Sunday school? And your sister says, cool as can be, "Because Beryl Boyd was hopped up on vaporizers and liable to hallucinate and think that the house was burning down, and somehow a blast of liquid CO2 seemed to calm her down." And there you have it. A little more of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clearing Up a Few Things | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...spent three years looking for this noodle,” explains the executive chef of the Culinary Support Group (CSG) as he points out the robust cubes of carrot and celery floating in the broth. “I wanted a noodle that would hold its shape in the liquid...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Centralization, Updates Top HUDS' Menu | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

Given all that, why were NASA scientists so excited last week to announce that one of their Mars rovers, having crawled across the planet for five weeks, finally determined that Mars, at some point in its deep past, was indeed "drenched"--to use NASA's term--with liquid water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blueberries of Mars | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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