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...Tough digital camera from Fisher-Price has sturdy rubber grips and a color LCD screen so kids can review snaps immediately. ("Look Ma! My hand!") The double viewfinder helps wee ones frame their shots. Image resolution is a mere 640 by 480 pixels (barely enough for a decent 4-in.-by-6-in. print), but low res also means there's more room to store pics: the 8 MB of built-in memory holds some 70 images, and there's a memory-card slot so Mom or Dad can up capacity. Price $70 Available June...
SCOTCHGARD In 1953 Patsy Sherman, one of the few women chemists at a major corporation, was researching in 3M's labs ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and solvents couldn't remove the compound, but Sherman also noticed it resisted dirt. So she and a colleague improved its liquid repellency, and three years later 3M sold it on the market as a suede protectant. In 1973 Sherman obtained a patent for it to preserve carpets...
...human hair, speak to the eye and not just the brain. That's another way of saying they are weirdly beautiful. In a world of factory-fabricated artworks, craftsmanship long ago ceased to be an end in itself for most artists, including Jungen. All the same, in his meticulous rubber taxidermy--all that filleting and restitching of the shoes--it's not hard to find an equivalent, and not just an ironic one, to the skilled handwork of First Nations...
Cramer paced around a desk covered with computer screens and hundreds of rubber bulls and bears with the show’s logo. He periodically threw these creatures at audience members to keep them enthusiastic as he discussed stock facts and figures...
...Hamas ready to rule? Under the strong-arm regime of Yasser Arafat, the Fatah-dominated parliament was mostly a rubber stamp. A Hamas-controlled legislature is likely to wield much more power, severely restricting Abbas' ability to make decisions independently. That may lead to battles over the control of state agencies...