Word: terras
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...TIME's cover art is always original and meaningful, but the illustration for "Italy vs. China," depicting Michelangelo's David and a Chinese terra-cotta soldier arm wrestling, was extraordinary. My congratulations to the artist. Montano Riva Barbaran Longare, Italy...
...could have predicted that foot scrubbers would bring big change to a small village in Pakistan? Ann Thariani's fascination with handcrafted terra-cotta foot scrubbers began when she lived in Karachi with her Pakistani architect husband Kumy and led them to start a company, Gilden Tree. Sales of the product skyrocketed, but the women who made the scrubbers were not the only beneficiaries. The Tharianis decided to pay to educate the women's offspring, with one challenging stipulation: the girls, who often stay at home in rural Pakistan, had to go to school with the boys. "Everything Gilden Tree...
...operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and Terra Pass, Skoll asks viewers to lobby Congress for more investments in renewable energy and presents ways to reduce oil dependence. With three movies under his belt--and a box-office hit or two--Skoll may now persuade even the most profit-hungry investors to join his crusade to change...
...ORGANIC Forget rigidity. Home décor is going organic, at least in form. Jason Miller's ceramic Superordinate Antler chandelier imitates nature via incandescent bulbs. Lene Frantzen's felt cushion looks like a slab of tree trunk. Ted Muehling's porcelain vase ?grows moss.? And Viva Terra bowls undulate like petrified petals and are carved from Chinese fir roots...
...score a "hit" on an enemy aircraft. After the fray, pilots will demonstrate some of the slicker moves required in air combat, including tail slides, inverted spins and loop-the-loops, subjecting you to more eye-popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you regain terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at just over 9 m above the terminal deck, so that friends and relatives can take pictures. The flight home by Boeing or Airbus may seem interminably tedious by comparison. www.fightercombat.com