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...them to the computer. The next stop is the main printing area: two warehouse-size rooms occupied by 10 wooden counters, each the length of a billiard table, that run along one wall. Here the screens will be laid out for printing. Colors are chosen from a line of plastic jugs and are mixed in a special machine. "Before, we mixed by hand, pouring this in and that in. Very trial and error," he admits. "Now we have the computer do all the percentages of chemicals and colors...
...GUARD SITTING in a plastic garden chair in the Gem Palace garage may or may not be listening as I spell my name for the second time. "Marie-Hélène. I'm here to see Mah-ree Eh-len," I insist, mindful that his reserve could be linked to the millions of dollars in jewels just upstairs. His wobbly head shake becomes more vigorous. "He only knows Gujarati. He says you can go up," a male voice calls...
Some high school trophies occupy a special place in the heart, a warm space cordoned off for sentimentality and success. Other prizes, an army of identical plastic men posing victoriously atop them, are predictably forgotten just days after their acquisition.Then there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan†(Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school...
...ablaze his small mobile home in western Baghdad. Before taking her children with her to live in her father's home in nearby al-Haswa, Nema returned one last time to their old neighborhood--just long enough to collect her husband's charred body parts in a plastic bag so he could have a decent burial. Her Sunni neighbors were impassive. "Nobody offered to help me in any way," she says, her face hardening at the memory...
...resolution CT scanning. The process produced virtual slices just 0.39 mm (about 0.02 in.) thick - "much more detailed than the ones made of King Tut's mummy," says Owsley. The slices were then digitally recombined into 3-D computer images that were used to make exact copies out of plastic. The replica of the skull has already enabled scientists to clear up a popular misconception that dates back to the initial reports of the discovery. (See TIME's science and technology covers...