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...including stools, chess sets and storage units--at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It's not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy...
...method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. "I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot," he says...
Until our recent trip to Dickson Brothers, where we treated ourselves to re-usable plastic bowls, a spatula and silverware, we had just one metal spoon among our four mouths. We have housing in DeWolfe, considered quite posh by summer subletting standards in Cambridge. And although we have a big, glorious refrigerator capable of storing 5 gallons of milk to my HSA’s one quart, as well as a dishwasher, oven range and trash compactor, fending for my stomach—even with the mechanical niceties of a working kitchen to call my own—has been...
...last customers had left, one of the men, who had once worked at the Wendy's, went downstairs to the manager's office, and announced a robbery. The six other workers in the restaurant were forced downstairs, where they were tied up, their mouths sealed with duct tape, and plastic bags placed over their heads. The two robbers ordered the workers into a walk-in refrigerator. There, the workers were instructed to kneel, and, one by one, were shot in the back of the head...
...truck-based X-ray inspection systems made by American Science and Engineering, Inc., in Billerica, Mass. Using a technique in which images are made from X rays scattered back from objects (rather than passing through them), AS&E's systems can spot--with extraordinary clarity--guns, drugs, plastic explosives and other contraband, even when hidden, say, in the middle of a fully packed banana truck. One of the company's products, called BodySearch, reveals ghostly images of weapons and whatever else--including genitals--might be hidden underneath your clothes...