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...could help. Palmers Lingerie of Austria offers tights that react to body heat and release vitamins A, B and C into the skin. Scientists at Germany's Hohenstein Institute Textile Research Center are working on a range of healing clothes, including a fabric that combats dermatitis. The textile is woven with tiny repositories that contain an anti-dermatitis agent; in response to body heat, the fabric releases the agent onto the skin. The Life Shirt System by California's VivoMetrics, a prizewinner at this year's Avantex high-tech apparel fair in Frankfurt, allows patients who normally need regular hospital...
...might not have even noticed it. Like changing styles, thoughts that were paranoid last summer are today pragmatic and we quietly accept the fact that there is more terror in our country’s future. Uncertainty now occupies a permanent place in American life; fear has tacitly woven itself into the fabric of our daily routines...
...It’s over the top, but at the same, because it’s made by James Toback, it’s also very intellectual,” he said. “How often do you get a crime movie with grandiose ideas woven into the story...
...palm plantations crowd the Pagan Plain, each tended by a family that taps its livelihood from high up in the fronds. The thin, sweet sap is boiled down in large vats to make a dark, flavorful sugar sold at roadside stands. But for the real treat, look beyond the woven palm baskets filled with the golden lumps for the flask bottles of potent palm toddy?the sap that is collected in the afternoon, after fermenting all day in the sun. Unrefined, it is a refreshing, effervescent and tangy beer. Distilled, it makes an earthy moonshine that mixes well with...
...Burma, a country where symbols and omens are woven into the fabric of life, the portents were all positive. True, University Avenue, the winding road leading to the monsoon-stained mansion where opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since September 2000, was still closed off. But behind the sawhorses, blue-trousered municipal workers could be seen repairing potholes and sweeping the sidewalks clear of cheroot butts, palm fronds and bamboo leaves. Neighbors reported that the Nobel Peace Prize winner's lawn was being mowed, her grounds spruced up. A few blocks away, the once forlorn...