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...house of tomorrow will be made of soda bottles--that's how we best know the substance called PET, or polyethylene terephthalate. But architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake see a much different use for the plastic: embedded with flat circuitry that will enable walls to store heat, generate electricity and double as giant, flat-panel displays. Their iteration, called SmartWrap, could also make the building process faster and cheaper than ever...
Instead of buying herbs in bunches at the store, I buy pots of herbs. I keep them on a back step or in the kitchen, and they last. They are everything to my cooking. You can change the way tomatoes are cut and which herbs go on them, and it tastes like a new dish each time. Also, when you go to the market, you can see what's there and then decide what to cook. You may want a soup and that's fine, but you may not know what kind of soup until you see what is seasonal...
...walls, allowing listeners to check out music before buying, and CDs can be sampled at listening stations). It also stocks cameras from cult Russian manufacturer, Lomo, as well as a range of fashionable giftware and stationery. Aksara's founder and CEO, 34-year-old Winfred Hutabarat, compares the store to Collette in Paris, or 10 Corso Como in Milan. "We are a concept store selling a range of products," he says. "But whereas those stores have fashion as an anchor, ours is books." John McGlynn, publishing director of the Lontar Foundation, which translates Indonesian literature into English, describes Aksara...
...Hindu festival of Diwali, the Festival of Light. Sixteen died in Paharganj, 39 in Sarojini Nagar. A third explosion, on a bus in Okhla, south Delhi, reportedly killed three. "I saw one child, not more than six months old, its body split by the blast," said Paharganj handicrafts store-owner Neeraj Chawla. "And there was a family of shoppers. All dead, a mother and her children, lying on the ground with their arms apart. That's why I'm covered with blood. All the shop-owners rushed to pick them...
...they don't come cheap. So here's a tip for those who want to enjoy some of the Austrian architect and designer's beautiful patterns without paying top dollar: head for the remnants chest at Stockholm's Svenkst Tenn (www.svenskttenn.se), the grand dame of Swedish home-furnishings stores. Frank was a co-founder of the store and concocted 160 patterns for it, of which 40 are still in production. Off-cuts of many of these end up in Svenkst Tenn's overflowing remnants chest. None of the pieces are large enough to upholster anything chunky-so forget about revamping...