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...know my name,” “Yellow Submarine,” most of Sgt Pepper (including that bit at the end where you just hear the mopheads laughing and talking), “Bungalow Bill” and threw in some Plastic Ono tracks for good measure. Twenty-two tracks of it. It’s long, unremitting and opaque, and even the cool cartoon album cover artwork by David Barnes, (presumably brother of Kevin, the brains behind the band) which extends to an entire booklet and foldout poster, cannot redeem it (even the musical interpretation...
Though I was born in Japan, these plastic kits and the ships they represented were among my first independently arrived-at impressions of that country. What kind of nation could produce these strange-looking ships? And then, just a few decades later, distribute these wondrous plastic replicas? It has stayed with me ever since as my internal, almost subconscious response to the notion that Japan is a copycat nation: no other country, before or since, ever made aircraft carriers that looked like the Akagi or Shokaku or Hiryu. At the same time, only Japan ever made toys as wondrously byzantine...
...than school ones. In February, Hershey Foods completed a national rollout of its fat-free chocolate milk, a product with appeal for calorie-counting adults. National brands like Nestle-owned Nesquik, along with regional dairies like Dean Foods in the Midwest, have started packaging chocolate milk in single-serve plastic bottles, which, unlike the powder mix and kid-friendly half-pint cartons, are geared to adults shopping in grocery and convenience stores...
Sometime in the next 10 weeks, surgeons will remove the heart from a dying cardiac patient and replace it with the device seen at right--the first fully implantable, entirely self-contained mechanical heart. The $75,000 pump is a technological tour de force. Fashioned of titanium and plastic, it is powered by a wallet-size battery pack that transmits energy to a coil under the skin. Patients should be able to walk, shower, even return to work--as long as they recharge every four hours. AbioMed hopes to install more if the experimental design works reliably and delivers good...
ShippingSupply.com now does a brisk business in bubble wrap, mailers, shipping tubes and plastic-foam peanuts. It has expanded twice and currently occupies 7,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space. Young has a staff of eight, including her husband, who quit...