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...Eraser, a block of melamine foam that lets you remove stains and scuff marks swiftly without breaking a sweat. The material's unique chemical makeup makes it a great cleaner. But beware: rub too long or hard on the same spot, and you'll take the shine off a semigloss surface--or worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Kid Friendly | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Economists who once cavalierly pronounced that an Asian slowdown might even be good for the U.S.--it would help hold down inflation--are now slashing their 1998 growth forecasts and fretting about possible deflation, the broad and sustained decline of prices for everything from semiconductors to semigloss. Most agree that the growth of the gross domestic product this year, because of Asia's problems, will be a half to a full percentage point lower than earlier forecasts--in real numbers, roughly 2.5% instead of the 3% or 3.5% that was talked about last year. Meanwhile, as scores of companies prepare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Economic Flu and You | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...world tour so much that he repeated it the following year. Now, as he stood contemplating his small frame house, visions of beautiful ladies in Thailand and Singapore, heaving ships at sea, castles on the Rhine bubbled through his brain. He seized his 3-in. brush and green semigloss enamel and began to paint a small grass hut on one wall. It wasn't bad, considering that he had never painted a picture in his life. By the end of the day, the wall was decorated with glassy-eyed maidens and churning waves, and Sanford Darling had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Scmford Darling Paints His House | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...blue eyes glowing. On his pitched roof, he painted an impressionistic harbor scene with sailboats, white mountains and a shining lighthouse that can be seen two blocks away. He soon discovered that the compressed cardboard backs of old television sets had just the right absorptive quality for the semigloss house paint he favored; he painted scenes on as many of these cardboard backs as he could get his hands on, and mounted them on the outside walls of his house. In his artistic development, Darling went through a fairly long Cezanne period and had an affair with early Grandma Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Scmford Darling Paints His House | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

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