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...small-scale [model] inflated," says Schneider. At full size, 45 ft. long and 22 ft. in diameter, it should hold three to six people in a shirtsleeve environment. TransHab launches in a compressed state, with fabric wrapped around a rigid core, then inflates "like a pup tent in the back of a car," according to Schneider. Bigelow has poured $75 million into the project...
...common. We both exist in bubbles and set the benchmarks for our fields.New York City Fashion Week is a nine-day fashion binge featuring 221 designers, numerous celebrity sightings, and plenty of attitude. The semi-annual event previews designers’ fall lines in a series of giant tents in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. For two days, we explored this unfamiliar fashion world. And for the record, we did sit next to Fabio during our first runway show.Feb. 2, 9:15 a.m. We enter the central tent, surrounded by impossibly tall PR women and the city?...
...minor celebrities—the Kimberly Stewarts, Michelle Trachtenbergs, and Kim Kardashians of the world—to come out of the woodwork and be validated in a way that they, the C-list of the celebrity world, are not usually validated.WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSEWhen one goes to the tents at Bryant Park, it is actually quite a mindfuck to realize how large the world of minor celebrity actually is. Vaguely recognizable people from all aspects of entertainment and fashion—winners of reality TV shows, pundits on VH1, and the like—lumber through the tents...
...wear-resistant coating for military equipment. Gemesis, a Sarasota, Fla., company that has been selling man-made gemstones for four years, sets aside a chunk of its R&D budget for the electronics industry. Even DeBeers, the dominant producer of mined gemstone diamonds, has acknowledged the la- tent power of synthetic diamonds (the preferred industry term). DeBeers has maintained a small business selling diamond for drills, precision cutting tools and even tweeter domes in stereo systems, but in 2002 it rebranded that branch of its operations Element Six--a sign of its commitment to this fledgling side of the business...
...over and Yamani is dead, the Iraqi government is claiming that unspeakable and impious things went on in the compound, though it is difficult to untangle reality from stories designed to make the defeated sect look bad. The government now says that it found a pool underneath a large tent where sect members engaged in orgies - in the apparent belief that immoral behavior would hasten the advent of the Mahdi...