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Ziba Design's heaters are not in production yet, but the prototypes have won a prize from the Industrial Designers Society of America. While they celebrate simplicity (each contains a single screw, and the controls are self- explanatory), they avoid both stripped-down K Mart grimness and unsmiling Germanic pretension. Just as moderne objects in the '30s suggested speed, the curves of these heaters evoke waves of warmth: form (metaphorically) follows function...
Ziba Design's heaters are not in production yet, but the prototypes have won a prize from the Industrial Designers Society of America. While they celebrate simplicity (each contains a single screw, and the controls are self- explanatory), they avoid both stripped-down K Mart grimness and unsmiling Germanic pretension. Just as moderne objects in the '30s suggested speed, the curves of these heaters evoke waves of warmth: form (metaphorically) follows function...
...Mafia. Against all odds, the most corrupt U.S. labor union elected an underdog reformer as president -- Watch out, wiseguys . . . Sam Skinner moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock heaven. The hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit has become an anthem for apathetic kids . . . Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't pick...
...involved in creating hundreds of designs ranging from unicorns, Dalmatians and bears to ballet slippers and hearts. Says Frank: "Our company is more of an artistic passion than just a business." The Arizona firm, which first distributed the products in department stores and later moved into discounters like Wal-Mart and Target, plans to expand soon into apparel, animation and video...
...third major drug-money % laundering indictment in the precious-metals and diamond industry in as many years. The first phase of what the Federal Government calls Operation Polar Cap involved the 1988 breakup of a $1 billion money-laundering scheme for the Medellin cartel through a Los Angeles jewelry mart. "Saccoccia was in a position to step right in after we knocked out Polar Cap One," says U.S. Attorney Lincoln Almond of Rhode Island. "We were onto him from...