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...Heavy Metal An arresting juxtaposition of high tech fabrics and old world craftmanship is on display in Milan
...spent two hours convincing the Civil Guard that the contraption in the trunk was intended for cooking vegetables, and not, say, blowing up train stations. The newer, sleeker version of the Gastrovac, developed earlier this year, still looks like a pressure cooker attached by rubber hose to a high-tech hot plate, but its functions are thoroughly space age. By lowering atmospheric pressure, it brings liquids to boil at temperatures much lower than normal - 55?C for water, 80?C for oil - while still cooking more quickly than traditional vacuum cookers. Lower temperatures and shorter cooking times keep the cellular...
Houses are not tech stocks. If your property doubled in value over the past 10 years, you can be reasonably sure that it will hang on to some, if not much, of the gain. But counting on further rapid appreciation is foolish. The average home price declined in a fourth of U.S. cities in the second quarter of this year, the most recent period for which data are available. Overall, home values still rose, but the rate of growth registered its largest falloff on record...
Still, folks bent on retiring will find it difficult to resist thinking of a greatly appreciated home as the final piece of their call-it-quits puzzle. If you're of that mind, at least learn from the tech bubble. Would-be retirees who got bruised most back then were the ones who watched their technology stocks soar beyond expectations, enabling them to hit their savings goals ahead of schedule and quit work--but who failed to diversify and got stung when those stocks later plunged...
...High schoolers as young as 16 are providing services to science labs, hospitals and high tech companies - and not just of the coffee-fetching kind. The results are so encouraging that a growing chorus of educators, experts and employers - prodded by the Gates Foundation - is pushing for internships to be incorporated into high school curriculums...