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...sturdy, appealing to people who lead active outdoor lives," says Thomas Lupinski, the company's chief financial officer. Meanwhile, Swiss Army Recycling Collection is conquering fashion frontiers with accessories made from old military blankets. After discovering unused blankets stockpiled in the Alps, designer Walter Maurer decided the coarse wool was ideal for heavy-duty bags, rucksacks and key rings. Made in the tiny Swiss village of Törbel by Maurer and a local cobbler, the collection is sold to the "trendy, techno generation" in Europe and Japan, Maurer says. Chalk up another victory for the Swiss. - Helena Bachmann/Geneva SEEN...
...picture here. We are talking postcard quality every time. As the sun bursts over the horizon, the mountain's jagged silhouette looms dramatically against the dawn's fiery palette. Innumerable hues of pink, red and orange are splashed about the sky, and are gently reflected on the cotton wool kingdom arrayed below...
...comparing the genetic profile of parent and child through the so-called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It takes would-or-would-not-be fathers only a phone call, an e-mail or a quick visit to the local pharmacy to get the kit containing test tubes and sterile cotton-wool sticks for swabbing the inside of a child's cheek. The subsequent analysis, done by the various DNA labs, takes three to 10 days...
...staying with the Simpsons, Anna was busy knitting colorful squares. She handed me some needles and taught me to knit. Because I held my needles too tightly, my would-be square looked more like a parallelogram. At the end of my stay, Anna presented me with a hearty wool blanket knitted from the squares. With characteristic Shetlander modesty, she hesitated to honor my request for her to stitch her initials in the corner. "Oh, why would I do that?" she said, laughing. It was not as if I would forget where it came from. But I wanted the reminder just...
...pedantic Jospin, 64, is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist apparatchik who is particularly proud of having restricted the hours the French can work to 35 a week. He was already first secretary of the Socialist Party when it first held power way back in 1981. He says that, while he is a socialist, his program will not be socialist - which is only pragmatic of him, since the outcome will be decided by centrist voters. But a vote for Jospin is still a vote for a state that takes more than half the national income in tax and welfare payments...