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...know Bettie Page existed. Back then, Bettie was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Wink, Whisper and Flirt, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day. In January 1955 she was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy...
Perhaps not surprisingly, in Reykjavik talk about geothermal power can sometimes take an evangelical turn. One afternoon in May, in the slick offices of Reykjavik Energy, Gudmundur Thoroddsson points out a World Bank study that lists electricity above corruption, crime and access to capital as the biggest obstacle to budding entrepreneurs in Africa. "It saddens me when I come to a place where you have a big oil-driven generator sitting on top of a geothermal field and you're paying three or four times the cost [for energy]," says Thoroddsson, the former CEO of Reykjavik Energy's investment...
...urban style and are today collected by aficionados worldwide. His empire now includes some 50 stores, a hair salon, art gallery, café, magazine and record label. Fifteen years after the debut of his first A BATHING APE (or BAPE) t-shirts, publishing house Rizzoli has released a slick coffee table book reprising Nigo's iconic designs for clothes, stores, toys, graphic design, food and commercial packaging - if you can fit an ape on it, it's in here. (Click here to see a gallery of Japanese design's greatest hits...
...game], I think that we came out a little flat in the first, but definitely picked it up in the second and third periods,” Kessler said.The Crimson shined in the second period. At 13:09, tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt grabbed the puck and made an unassisted slick shot beneath Gopher goalkeeper Jenny Lura’s skate, straight into the net to tie the game. The third period saw the most action overall, starting with a goal at 2:43 from Minnesota’s Rachael Drazan. The Gophers continued to crank up the physicality, giving Harvard...
...slows you down. The idea behind the clickable screen is that it will minimize errors by getting you to think before you press. Instead, it took much of the fun out of using the device. While some people complain that the iPhone's touchscreen is a little too slick and imprecise - of the three devices, I tend to make the most typos with the iPhone - at least it's fast. And while the G1's mini, Chiclet-size keys seem designed for Lilliputians, they are accurate and respond even when pressed with the edge of a fingernail. The Storm...