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...prototype for a new era of shopping malls should be in the city that invented the concept. After all, the Grand Bazaar, the world's first covered market, has been trading since before Columbus landed in the Americas and contains some 4,000 shops, banks, cafés, a police station and a post office...
...With this stylish storage solution from Andrew Lang Product Design, bicycles no longer need to clutter entryways. The colorful plastic Cycloc attaches to your wall with three screws. French design company Lexon has the wood and aluminum Dolmen radio, which lets you tune in to any FM or AM station. You can channel your inner '40s film star when you attach Hulger's P*Phone retro handset to your cell phone. Allowing you to avoid radiation exposure from your cell phone, it's a more glamorous alternative to a hands-free headset. Another take on the vintage telephone is Bang...
...pass. About 300 MBTA Ambassadors sporting green vests passed the cards out all over the city to promote the CharlieCards and explain their use. “This is very important,†said Jamey Tesler, an MBTA attorney who helped distribute cards at the Harvard Square station. “We’re all doing this so that everyone riding the T knows how this works.†Unlike the CharlieTickets, which must be inserted into fareboxes, the new CharlieCard just needs to be tapped against a target. “It’s incredibly...
...isotope of common helium that could serve as fuel in eventual fusion reactors. Astronauts could, in theory, mine the stuff and ship it back to Earth. That's fine, but first we have to, well, invent the reactor. What's more, as the beleaguered crews aboard the International Space Station have discovered, sometimes just maintaining your ship can take all your time and the mission itself - scientific research, mining - gets...
...Then, of course, there's money. NASA's budget is currently about $17 billion a year, with no increase in sight. The agency insists that's sufficient to build the base, a claim that should become easier to believe after 2010, when the shuttles are mothballed and the space station is done and we quit throwing money into two programs that have long been revenue sinks. The agency hopes to woo international partners too, but after the bust of the space station - a U.S.-led but multi-national progra - it may not be so easy to make the sale...