Word: mold
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Lots of them, if AgION Technologies has its way. The privately held firm produces an antimicrobial material that gives anything in which it is embedded an enduring resistance to bacteria, yeast, algae and mold. AgION, which has raised $40.5 million in capital, works with manufacturers up and down the supply chain to incorporate its bug-busting stuff into everything from water filters to doorknobs and even the casing of a cell phone, the Motorola i870...
This is a tale so primal and pitiable that for many a former child it deserves to be retold on an analyst's couch. The boy has fallen in love with comic books; studied and memorized their narrative outrages, their graphic ingenuity; saved them in meticulous stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
...original mold for the “Veritas” plates was relatively expensive, according to Snyder, but producing multiple copies will cost Carbon’s little...
Real estate agent Sherry Masinter, 46, lived with her lawyer husband Milton, 73, in the Lakeview neighborhood until the 17th Street Canal levee broke and flooded their house with 8 ft. of water. Today mold grows up the walls. The couple paid for flood insurance faithfully for 20 years and were reimbursed, but their neighbors are still battling with their insurance company over arcane formulas. Milton argues--as did independent experts from the National Science Foundation and the American Society of Civil Engineers recently--that poor levee design by the Army Corps of Engineers caused the flood, not Katrina. That...
...environmental activism, and Chouinard founded an alliance of businesses that donate at least one percent of their revenues to environmental organizations. This level of concern about the ecosystem is rare in the corporate world, and Chouinard delights in the fact that his company has broken all the accepted molds. Patagonia stands out as one of the few successful exceptions. But if companies start applying the philosophies and lessons in “Let My People Go Surfing,” Patagonia may become a mold of its own.—Staff writer David Zhou can be reached at dzhou@fas.harvard.edu...