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...using netting, foliage and smoke to conceal airports, oil tankers and factories from aerial detection. High-tech vinyl-adhesive photographs now available can conceal entire bridges; temporary camouflage can be painted on military tanks and just as quickly be washed off. One Dutch defense contractor is working on thin, plastic sheets that adapt and blend into a soldier's environment by using a system of light-emitting diodes and a small camera. Another contractor, AAE, has patented a type of fabric that prevents infrared radar from detecting body heat. It's calling it the "stealth poncho." It's a long...
...think it's insulting, in any case, to tell people that they look good for their age? I think everybody wants to look good for their age. I'm not particularly worried about that being insulting. We're forced to think about it in [this] plastic-surgery culture. We don't all have to be those women who have personal trainers and Botox. I think the key is to try and keep it together without looking false and without trying to look too young, just to age gracefully while smoking and drinking and doing all the rest [of the things...
...laborers who schlep across town from their quarters in the suburbs to work sites across town, with their drills and saws strapped to their bike racks. Police stations are often fronted by a row of blue and white patrol e-bikes. Delivery workers from McDonald's and KFC haul plastic cases stuffed with Big Macs and fried chicken to office parks. "At first, I picked an e-bike because I couldn't stand the sickening smell of gas from my scooter," says Zhang Dengming, 50, a construction supervisor in Shanghai. "But after a while, I realized that e-bikes...
...Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong have long been a popular meeting place. It was at this familiar spot 20 years ago that democracy advocates sold commemorative items to raise money for the victims of the June 4 crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. I bought one: a four-inch plastic replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that had been erected at the square. For a 9-year-old trying to make sense of the world, that keepsake was a concrete link to the revolutionary scenes spanning the globe during that eventful year...
...friendly terms on the football pitch. In 2005, the last time the Iranians played a competitive match in the North Korean capital, the game turned sour. Slipping to defeat, North Korean players vented their frustrations on the Syrian referee, pushing the official to the ground. Irate fans hurled missiles - plastic bottles, mostly - at the Iranian team. The scenes then were broadcast via satellite around the world, giving watchers of the isolated communist state a strange, unprecedented glimpse of what civil disturbance could look like in the hermit kingdom. (See pictures of soccer riots at LIFE.com...