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...Delano, an American who lives in Japan, has been traveling to China since 1994 and shot most of this collection in the late 1990s. But many of the photographs look much older. A woman humping a load of bricks up a cobblestone street in Yunnan, a peasant in a straw hat watching river boats, a beggar near the imperial palace?these scenes could date back to a time when the camera had only just been invented. This is deliberate. Delano collects old photographs and says he's drawn to the similarities between today's China and a bygone America, especially...
Clear Water Revival Inventor: Vestergaard Frandsen Group Availability: Early 2006; $3 and up To Learn More: lifestraw.com The price of a caffe latte - about $3 - really can save a life. The LifeStraw, a beefed-up drinking straw designed by the Swiss-based company Vestergaard Frandsen, uses seven types of filters, including mesh, active carbon and iodine, to make 185 gal. of water clean enough to drink. It can prevent waterborne illnesses, such as typhoid and diarrhea, that kill at least 2 million people every year in the developing world. It can also create safe drinking water for victims of hurricanes...
...quickly explains that he was born in Stockholm, and is, in fact, Swedish.Big as his lead now is, he left me a double word score of my own. Miles never was known for his defense. From the “S” I generate “straw,” the familiar nickname of Simon’s brother-in-law Darryl Strawberry. With a double letter score on the “W,” I receive 24 points to get back in the game. He follows with “lute,” running...
...director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
...result of competition, Hinkle said. The Kendall Square Cinema is a multiplex with similar programming, and Internet-based companies like Netflix and VideoOnDemand.com give viewers one reason fewer to buy a ticket. And, for the Brattle, which acquires many of its reels outside the mainstream, rising prices place another straw on the camel’s back. “It’s getting costlier and costlier to do the kind of programming the Brattle does,” Hinkle said. As a result, he said he places a premium on the theater’s unconventional charms...