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...event was intended as a follow-up to the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women, according to GSAS student Amy J. Luckey, one of the event's eight coordinators...
...more than 1,000 other agencies have adopted Cap-Stun, which is distributed by Luckey Police Products of Fort Lauderdale. Sizes range from the 2-gal. container for riot use to the personal 1/2-oz. canister (price: $9.95). Gardner Whitcomb, 68, started the company with his wife 13 years ago, and has pushed Cap-Stun ever since as a safe substitute for mace. Whitcomb expects sales to quadruple this year, to $1 million...
...safely. Such gadgets were invented years ago but have been sold almost exclusively to police departments and other institutions. Within a month, though, Prescott Technologies plans to sell the BreathScan for $1.59 in supermarkets, pharmacies and liquor stores nationwide. A competing product, the 15-Second Driver's Test from Luckey Laboratories in San Bernardino, Calif., may soon be widely available...
MOVABLE COLUMN. New Haven Architect Luckey has designed an 8-ft.-long, 6-ft.-diameter column that can be used in various ways. In a horizontal position, it serves as a bed or a couch; when it is lifted to a vertical position, the interior can be used as a dressing space, storage area or simply as a place to read in peace...
...Chairs, for example, create rigid environments," explains Thomas Luckey, 31, a New Haven environmental architect. "Because chairs are in fixed locations, they limit your options as to where to sit." In most rooms that Luckey and his colleagues design, conventional furniture is replaced by lumps, bumps and other more or less organized protrusions that serve as chairs, couches, tables and shelves. "The basic formula," says Charles Moore, former dean of Yale's School of Architecture and now a practicing architect in New Haven, "is to design an environment that is relatively cheap, comfortable and useful." After that, he says...