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Equa Chair. This handsome office chair, created by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick for the manufacturer Herman Miller, comprises two structural innovations: the backbone is an ingeniously cut single piece of springy glass- reinforced polyester resin, and a special knee-tilt mechanism lets the sitter lean back without whipping his feet off the floor...
...artisans. The movement is thriving in spite of serious obstacles. Most artists lack patrons, lucrative markets and substantial schooling. With tools, paint and canvas in chronically short supply, Africans work with whatever materials are handy. Wood is thus the most popular medium. If stained glass is too costly, colored resin is applied to windowpanes. If sculptors lack marble, they mix cheap pebbles and concrete. If budgets keep church buildings modest, they are brightened with imaginative decorations and vibrant vestments...
Called Plastics Again, the $4 million venture in Leominster, Mass., will clean up and break down used hamburger containers, insulated cups and cafeteria trays. The foam will be turned into plastic resin that can be formed into such new items as flowerpots, wall insulation and coat hangers. In its first year the plant is expected to recycle about 3 million lbs. of foam, or 8% of the state's annual consumption...
When boomers were babies in the 1940s and '50s, their parents would bronze their little white shoes. Now that boomers are beaming with babes of their own, they can preserve those memories in a more space-age substance: clear plastic resin. California artist Marguerite Elliot, 39, came up with the idea two years after the birth of her sister's twins. She decided it was a shame to bronze over the trendy, brightly hued designs of modern baby shoes, so she dipped a pair of castoffs in resin. Liking the result, Elliot launched a glazing service called Clear Memories...
...that 80 million years ago, the earth's atmosphere contained about 50% more oxygen than it does now. Geochemists Gary Landis of the U.S. Geological Survey and Robert Berner of Yale reached their startling conclusion after analyzing tiny air bubbles trapped in bits of amber, the aged and solidified resin of coniferous trees. They placed the amber inside a vacuum chamber, then cracked it to let the ancient air escape. They found that it was 32% oxygen, compared with 21% in the modern atmosphere...