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...Concept: The Bouroullecs like to take existing objects and push their functionality to the limit, thus extending their uses in unexpected ways. Instead of a public phone, this is a public umbrella, or Street Umbrella, as they have dubbed it. A mobile phone is incorporated into the handle, and the point acts as an antenna. The umbrella protects the speaker from rain, sun or the rest of the street's noise and activities so that he or she can have a conversation. Set into the wall behind the Street Umbrella is a screen with which users can navigate the telephone...
...Iraq were to be found in material breach of the terms. Ever since, the U.S. has insisted it needs no further U.N. vote to march on Baghdad when it sees fit. But for Europe, the key to the whole diplomatic enterprise is to keep the U.S. under the U.N. umbrella. Aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair say he wants to wring a U.S. commitment for a second resolution from Bush when they meet at Camp David this week. Even in the most pro-war country, Britain, 77% of citizens in one survey said they would oppose joining...
...record, according to the Census Bureau) with a sense that there's somewhere they can put their money without some analyst, CEO or Middle Eastern despot making it disappear. Most significantly, consumer spending is 66 percent of GDP, and the purchase of a new home tends to have an "umbrella effect" on the homeowner's spending as he heads back out to stock it with a washer/dryer, a new big-screen TV, and maybe a swing set for the yard...
...privilege of leaving their homes and families to serve as sacrificial tripwire in the event of a war. Meanwhile, South Korea reaps billions of dollars in economic benefits from the U.S. military presence in addition to the foreign investment it attracts as a beneficiary of the U.S. security umbrella...
...argued primarily as a privacy rights case. Do you believe that any successful challenge will be argued under the same umbrella...