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Thus stain-resistant trousers. The idea of pants as a bib is one whose time has come. Levi's Dockers brand has unveiled its Go Khaki with Stain Defender line. Treated with DuPont Teflon, these trousers allow the wearer to spill any "oil or water-based liquid" (e.g., beer, salad dressing) and have it bead up and roll off. Earlier this year, Lee introduced its Performance Khaki, which uses Nano-Care, microscopic whiskers that repel spills...
DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean surrealist known as Matta, whose hallucinatory paintings heavily influenced such artists as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko; in Tarquinia, Italy. His eerie mutants and globs of clashing color were, he said, "the subconscious in its burning, liquid state...
...authentic hustle and bustle need look no further than the crushingly congested Chandni Chowk area. Even though the metro will open here first, it's unlikely to provide much relief to the maze of hawkers and shopkeepers, donkeys and camels, trucks and bicycle rickshaws, selling everything from myrrh to liquid mercury to Mickey Mouse dolls. Only hardened Delhi hands can manage much more than a few hours of this kind of chaos. But these days, escape is no longer an Indian odyssey away...
...story isn't that simple. Salmon farming can be a dirty business. According to Otto Langer, 56, a biologist who worked 30 years for Canada's Department of Fisheries, a large salmon farm may pour as much liquid waste into the sea as a small city. Add to that the plagues of destructive sea lice that thrive in densely packed salmon pens and the schools of farm-grown fish that inevitably escape to the open sea, where they spread diseases and compete for food and breeding grounds with wild stocks...
...telecom bubble. The company was forced to cancel a recent bond offering and its stock is down 30% since the beginning of the year, but its cash hoard gives it plenty of room to maneuver. According to Nomura's estimates, Hutchison Whampoa has $14.5 billion in cash and liquid assets on hand, more than enough to cover the additional $10.2 billion the company will need to complete its multicountry 3G buildout. "Funny how people have been slagging off conglomerates for some time," says Nick Ingelbrecht, a technology analyst at Gartner, "but now the idea looks rather good, doesn...