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...Most industrial-design studios try to interpret a client's needs and come up with a style," says Paul Rowan, co-founder of housewares manufacturer Umbra. "Karim has his own personal vision." It helps that Rashid's vision incorporates things that Rowan needs, like a design that will stack and ship easily and that creates little waste in the making...
...share peaked at 31.4% in the first week. Created by U.K. children's entertainment company Just Group, these extraterrestrial misfits - who came to Earth, befriended three teenagers, and now help fight other aliens - have kids' imaginations firmly in their sights. "They can grow bigger when they're fighting," marvels Rowan Moody, 6, of London. Even adults can see the show's appeal. "It's goodies and baddies, but not quite in the usual way," says Ben Green, commercial director for a chain of Toymaster stores in England's East Midlands, who has a vested interest: his stores are poised...
DIED. CARL ROWAN, 75, crusading newsman, syndicated columnist and commentator once dubbed "the most visible black journalist in the country"; in Washington. He rose from poverty in Tennessee to become a penetrating reporter, focusing predominantly on issues of race relations. His forays into the public sector included stints as State Department spokesman under John Kennedy and as a delegate...
Visitors to Oxford and residents alike enjoy trips to Faulkner's 1840 Greek Revival home, Rowan Oak. Other attractions include the university's collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, one of the nation's finest, and its world-class jazz-blues archive. Another college-town perk: attending Southeastern Conference football and basketball games...
After the high school fascination with rock and some jazz, Radano became interested in experimental "new" music and avant-garde jazz when he went off to Rowan College in 1974, where he studied the intersections of jazz and art music and visited Manhattan often to work with many in-house ensembles that were blurring the lines between types of music...