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...which have been properly funktified after many a sockless summer) opt for a product with tea tree oil, a natural antiseptic. Thursday Plantation - which is based in Australia, home to the Melaleuca plant from which tea tree oil is derived - has a collection of antifungal products, including a deodorizing, talc-free foot powder, as well as a spray. Powders are messy but necessary for serious offenses; the spray is a better alternative for less heinous stink, whether it's from shoes or feet. The products' aroma is pretty subdued for containing tea tree oil (akin to a sweeter version...
...forget that he was almost certain to lose. Pacing confidently before a packed courtroom in the northeastern Chinese city of Haicheng earlier this year, he scored rhetorical points so deftly that sympathetic onlookers pumped their fists like fans at a sporting event. Chen's client, a 56-year-old talc miner named Zhao Jitian, was on trial for "assembling a mob to disrupt social order"-a politically charged criminal offense often invoked to silence Chinese citizens who band together to air grievances against their employers or the government. Police in Haicheng had arrested Zhao five months earlier after he took...
...real world, memories of 9/11 give way to anthrax scares—a prankster targets Joyce’s office with an envelope filled with talc, and she suspects that it could be Marshall—the bombing of Afghanistan, renewed surges of terrorism in Israel, and the invasion of Iraq. Kalfus portrays post-bellum reality as few other 9/11 artistes have, showing how the attacks have faded into the background radiation of our country’s life, occasionally surfacing sharply in phrases like “suicide bomb” and “Orange Alert...
...possible way to analyze this path, called the Technology Adoption Life Cycle (TALC), was developed by researchers observing Iowa farmers’ adoption of hybrid corn during in the 1930s. The TALC divides the population based on how enthusiastically they will embrace a new product, process or other technology and has been significantly revised by the venture capitalist and author Geoffrey Moore. Moore’s theory predicts that, if Kamen’s product does penetrate beyond technology enthusiasts, it will follow a clear path to mainstream adoption that has been similarly followed by almost every new technology...
...front of the TALC are the enthusiasts, the people who buy one of everything to take it apart, see how it works, and then claim to all their friends that they thought of the same idea, but better, back when they were working at Apple in 1985. These people, who represent only about 1 to 3 percent of the population, will buy the Segway. Behind the enthusiasts are the visionaries who will see before their counterparts the advantages they can seize by adopting a new technology before anyone else. They know that the Segway will not do 100 percent...