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...three vehicles, he could fit only the Porsche inside. Engel contacted Mike Maxwell, owner of Garage Improvement, a Garage Envy dealer in Oregon, who completed the makeover this July for $15,500. Maxwell added stain-resistant rubber flooring, cabinetry, recessed lighting and a hot-and-cold water faucet so Engel could wash his cars. "Now it looks like a finished room--a place I'd want to go to hang out," says Engel. His once curbside suv and his boat fit comfortably alongside the Porsche--well worth the price of a little nip and tuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Pimp My Garage | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

Looking to brighten up your sink? The HANSACANYON LED WATER FAUCET, above left, has light-emitting diodes that change color as the water temperature changes, so you can see when it's too hot, too cold or just right. KWC'S EVE FAUCET, above right, provides an even more illuminating experience. Inspired by his nearsighted grandmother, who never quite got all the grit off her garden veggies, designer Michael Lammel integrated LEDs into a transparent plastic ring within a pullout faucet. Press a button, and the light shines on whatever you're rinsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Counter Intelligence | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...June 20, 2001, when the police reached his modest brick home on Beachcomber Lane in suburban Houston, they found Andrea drenched with bathwater, her flowery blouse and brown leather sandals soaking wet. She had turned on the bathroom faucet to fill the porcelain tub and moved aside the shaggy mat to give herself traction for kneeling on the floor. It took a bit of work for her to chase down the last of the children; toward the end, she had a scuffle in the family room, sliding around on wet tile below a poster that proclaimed the epithets of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...other in Tanzania, at essentially no additional cost. Lest this devolve into feel-good boosterism, it’s worth noting technology can be used to further less noble goals as well—as soon as Internet pipes hit the ground, oppressive regimes put their hands on the faucet...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline | Title: So Long, and Thanks for the Bits | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...government coalition. "The Americans want to leave before the job is done, and figure the public picture is less bad if they put a Dutch team in there. We're not willing to participate in that political game. We don't want to be mopping the floor when the faucet is still running." De Hoop Scheffer insists that even in the south, the Nato troops are "sufficiently robust" to deal with the security challenge, and that oef will continue to take the lead in fighting what he calls the "spoilers" from Taliban and al-Qaeda. "Of course, suicide bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Alliance, New World | 1/28/2006 | See Source »

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