- Commodities: Lead flirts with record on worries about supplies - International Herald Tribune
Robbie WilliamsLONDON: The price of lead briefly rose to a record Monday after production was disrupted at a British refinery operated by the Swiss miner Xstrata and stockpiles of the metal declined. But it closed with a small loss for the day...
- Kids Crazy About Wheeled Shoes
Andy JonesArmond Williams, Markell McCoy and Kevin Horne are all relatively new to the world of Heelys, a popular shoe with a wheel installed in the heel...
- Pretty Rocks -- and Beads!
John HitchPretty Rocks -- and Beads! When I was in junior high, I made my mom a set of trivets, weaving together large heat-treated ceramic beads that came in a kit for this purpose...
- Gadget Lab: IDE Cables as Belts and Junk as Jewellery
Jennifer Love HewittNow the word's gone all SATA, what to do with those obsolete IDE cables stashed in the junk draw? Fractal Spin decided to turn them into belts, taking the most colorful examples and evoking the 60s-era fashion sense of straw-hatted performers at grotty B...
- Odom impresses amid pain - Los Angeles Times
Peja StojakovicOdom sits down at his locker and places his white, purple and gold Nikes in front of him. Cathy , it says across the toes. That's for Cathy Mercer, Odom's mother...
- OnlineAthens.com | DogBytes | Swimming Diving | Magill: Bibliowicz has Bulldog roots 02/07/07
Amber SwiftThe other day, while playing tennis with Georgia swimming coach Jack Bauerle, he informed me that my favorite swimmer, Reid Patterson (Georgia's first NCAA champion in 1953), has a grandson "blossoming" into one of the Bulldogs' best swimmers...
- Frozen body ID'd
Howard HughesDepartment of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Valmour L. Flannery, 55, of China, had been dead for some time. His most recent address was in Randolph, according to McCausland...
Antiques and the Arts Editorial Content Howard Hughes
Show manager Colleen James was pleased with her show. She said it was "full, sold out of dealer space and the weather helped with that." Brimfield was indeed blessed with fine weather for its third 2007 edition....
PopMatters | Columns | Rob Horning | Marginal Utility | Elitist Dumpster Divers Ashlee Simpson
Recently I disposed of a vast amount of my personal belongings a half dozen big heavy-gauge contractor bags worth of stuff along with a few crates of books and records and the odd piece of furniture...
Translation tool may aid troops Avril Lavigne
Translation tool may aid troops A wristwatch-based translation device, designed to help British soldiers overcome language barriers, could be in production by the end of the year...
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“BEST OF BERLIN” in PRODUCT DESIGN Exhibition of Jewellery, Life Style Accessories and Furniture in MOSCOW For a couple of years now, Berlin has been developing its very own, original appeal and dynamic in terms of design and is slowly starting to establ...
