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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Coca-Cola's biggest bottling plant in China, located in Shanghai, plastic bottles and aluminum cans zoom by on conveyer belts, weaving in and out of massive machines that shape, clean and fill the containers. Grimy wastewater, generated from the cleaning of water filters and the heating and cooling of drinks, is shunted to a separate building behind the factory where it is treated so it can be used for street-cleaning, car-washing and other secondary uses. Leaking pipes have been fixed to save water, and a dry lubricant is used to keep conveyer belts running smoothly with less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Pressure | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Afternoon in Caroni Swamp finds fanny-pack-clad, zoom-lens-toting tourists squeezed into pirogues motoring through the wetlands to catch a glimpse of the scarlet ibis, Trinidad's national bird. At sundown, some 10,000 of the vermillion-feathered, migratory waterfowl return from days spent in Venezuela, just nine miles away, to roost in the mangrove swamp south of Port of Spain. The window is brief, as a tropical sundown can seem as swift as a blanket thrown over a birdcage, but the ibis do not disappoint. In the day's last light, pack after pack of ibis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Menu: A National Treasure | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...Kanye). But not long into “Gimme That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom-in on a table in the foreground. A stack of magazines lies on the table, the content of which seems to entirely focus on—guess who?—Chingy. Tabloid pictures of Chingy clubbing with friends and waxing his car, for example, come alive as he joins...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Chingy ft. Ludacris and Bobby Valentino | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

Filmmakers and dealmakers were just unpacking their parkas in Park City, Utah, on the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival Thursday, when news of a potential breakthrough toward ending the 11-week-old Hollywood writers strike began to zoom from BlackBerry to BlackBerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sundance View of the Writers' Strike | 1/18/2008 | See Source »

...content people don’t quite grasp the use of full. sentences. In order to placate those “writers” who like to hoard words for themselves, we have compiled a list of our favorite design keyboard shortcuts: 5. Apple + +, Apple + - : For all your zoom in/zoom out needs, obvi. 4. Apple + Shift + I: Not to be confused with Apple + I, which has probably never been used in the history of Photoshop. 3. Apple + D: Useful in both InDesign and Photoshop. 2. Apple + Z, Apple + Z, Apple + Z, Apple + Z, Apple + Z, Apple + Z, Apple + Z, Apple...

Author: By Mariah A. Bush, Alan C. Chiu, and Amy Y. Ren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Designers and Photogs | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

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