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Despite occasional disasters, however, I was adjusting to a fake arm--thanks to certain modifications by prosthetist John Miguelez's team. Ralph had bit the dust, replaced by a more tapered, slightly lighter shell made of carbon fiber and acrylic resin. The modifications improved my range of motion and wardrobe--I could now button a dress shirt. But I was hardly wearing a second skin. The rigid shell chafed my forearm and got so hot in the summer that sweat dripped out of a small hole used...
...lose touch ..." his voice trails off, and he shrugs. Stefano probably would have hated the opening of the new Diesel store on London's Bond Street in May. The two-level store on a prime corner is a template for the new Diesel. Curvy leather seating and mod decorative resin dividers are part of the sophisticated décor. The layout says designer rather than jeans. At the party, Diesel had paid actress Heather Graham to model a denim mermaid number for the tabloids, and guards shooed guests away from a roped-off VIP area?effectively aping just the sort...
...contracting and construction management firm Shawmut Design and Construction is coordinating the project. After workers resculpt the missing sections of the cornices, the cornices will be covered with HyPoxy mold—a resin-water bond agent...
...named the 2006 Modern Marvel of the Year. Ward's Strawjet takes a renewable and universally available resource - straw - and turns it into low-cost building material that will provide farmers with extra income and eliminate the need for deforestation. Another eco-friendly detail: instead of using plastic resin, the tractor-size farming implement binds straw together using paper pulp, clay and cement...
...Constantin Brancusi's stylized bronze Sleeping Muse (1910), pictured, the exhibit, which runs through Sept. 4, invites visitors to consider the head as the birthplace of thought, emotion and identity. Dominating the exhibit foyer is a giant sculpture, Cosmos (2001), by contemporary French artist Boris Achour. Made of dyed resin, the cartoonish noggin with protruding nose rotates in space while humming a Brazilian lambada; the sound evokes an artist contentedly at work and fills the lively, labyrinthine exhibit with creative energy. Other artists prefer to turn their heads, well, on their heads. S?bastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing...