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...KHARA: With its crisp kurta shirts and hand-printed scarves, Khara, tel: (66) 5321 1067, will satiate your inner hippie and eco-warrior. Owner Karina Vestergaard, a Danish art curator and textile enthusiast, sells mostly handmade products using organic fabrics and natural dyes. She also sources directly from villages in Nepal and Thailand to ensure that money goes straight to the communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smarts | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Clear Water Revival Inventor: Vestergaard Frandsen Group Availability: Early 2006; $3 and up To Learn More: lifestraw.com The price of a caffe latte - about $3 - really can save a life. The LifeStraw, a beefed-up drinking straw designed by the Swiss-based company Vestergaard Frandsen, uses seven types of filters, including mesh, active carbon and iodine, to make 185 gal. of water clean enough to drink. It can prevent waterborne illnesses, such as typhoid and diarrhea, that kill at least 2 million people every year in the developing world. It can also create safe drinking water for victims of hurricanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Healthy Options | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...then releasing it at will as if it were an ordinary particle - has apparently been pulled off by two independent teams of physicists, one led by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the other by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard, who made similar headlines two years ago when she slowed a beam of light down to a nearly pedestrian 38 miles an hour. Walsworth's work will be published in the Jan. 29 Physical Review Letters; Hau's in the journal Nature, sometime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientists Catch Light in a Bottle | 5/29/2001 | See Source »

PRINCETON (73): John Thompson 1-0--2; Bob Scrabis 6-5--17; Alan Williams 8-8--24; Dave Orlandini 6-1--16; Joe Scott 5-2--14; Tim Neff 0-0--0; Aaron Belz 0-0--0; Anders Vestergaard 0-0--0; Totals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Record | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

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