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...demand is up sevenfold, and he has attracted venture capital to purchase Clark's distribution channel. SurfTech, the largest maker of epoxy boards, reports that business has doubled. Insiders say the search for new materials could mark a technological turning point, similar to an earlier move away from balsa wood toward polyurethane. "It will be the biggest shift in 40 years," says board-shaping icon Eric Arakawa...
...light-filled pavilion, there's a sense of serenity that not even the booming chorus of All You Need Is Love from the '60s British art show downstairs can shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising...
...sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts.That’s the secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl?...
...population,” he said. “It’s difficult to get that information in disaster situations in general, but more so in this situation because of the massive physical dislocation of people.”Benjamin F. Springgate, a fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a collaborator on the study, agreed with Kessler. Springgate said the study would help public officials “make the decisions that will allow the population to come back if they choose to, and allow us to plan...
...Raveevarn Choksombatchai: A tube-like bridge designed by this Thai-born, California-based architect is the most abstract design to make the cut, and it's also one of the most visually intriguing. Built from a lattice of wood and other natural materials, it's meant to blend in with the surrounding forest, prompting visitors to reflect on humans' relationship with nature...