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Pens made from discarded computer printers. Pencil cases fashioned from old tires. These eye-catching and eco-friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company - called, natch, Remarkable - has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil...
...Neverland” and “Monster’s Ball,” outdoes himself by using creative camera angles and surprising scene transitions to keep audience members at the edge of their seats. The opening scene is an especially breathtaking, in-depth visual of a car tire exploding and the metal wheel plate skidding along the ground as sparks fly. The scene catches the audience, immediately mesmerizing them and drawing them into the movie. Unfortunately, even Schaefer’s master camerawork cannot sustain the audience to the end of “Stay...
...This is a mythos I grew up with. I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really...
...Columbia, Houston," he said. "We see your tire-pressure message...
...flight of stairs and headed for an employee garage, where one of them pulled a knife on an airport official and commandeered his Mercedes-Benz. In a running gun battle with police, the terrorists tossed a grenade at a pursuing patrol car (it missed), and police bullets flattened a tire and pierced the gas tank of the Mercedes. Just two miles from the airport, the killers were stopped. The toll: three dead, including one of the terrorists, and 47 wounded...