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...Innovations include Lexan polycarbonate resin, a radar system for commercial airports, man-made diamonds. Enters the computer business...
BAKELITE Leo Baekeland was hoping to create a synthetic shellac when he mixed together carbolic acid and formaldehyde in his Yonkers, N.Y., lab in 1907. Instead he created the first totally synthetic plastic-phenolic resin and changed the world. Some mistake...
...adventure takes off from Turpmtine--the local Georgia pronunciation of the product once derived from the pinetree resin harvested there. The 29,000 acres of this plantation belong to Charlie Croker, 60, a high-stakes Atlanta real estate developer with a second wife 32 years his junior and an arthritic knee, a relic from his days of playing football for Georgia Tech. Among his many earthly possessions, Turpmtine is by far Charlie's most cherished; he sees it as a validation not of his wealth but of something deeper: "You had to be man enough to deserve a quail plantation...
...year-old Alexander McQueen, Givenchy. His show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right, was as faux as the eyelashes, eyebrows and pupils adorning CHRYSTELE, left. "There are two or three pieces I'd love to have," said Demi Moore after the show. Of course, that doesn't mean she would wear them...
...telltale substances in a salt clinched the new finding: tartaric acid and resin from the terebinth tree. Tartaric acid occurs in large amounts only in grapes, and terebinth resin was a wine preservative used all over the ancient Near East up through Roman times...