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• Billionaire kills himself over financial crisis
He used his wealth, estimated by Forbes last year to be $9.2 billion, to take stakes in HeidelbergCement and Ratiopharm. Merckle also owned stakes in companies that made a wide array of goods from all-terrain vehicles, software to textiles. Despite ...
• Hawaiian clothing pioneer Shaheen dies at 86
There were mom and pop stores but no real modern industry,” Linda Arthur, a professor of textiles and clothing at Washington State University, told the Los Angeles Times. Shaheen's patterns generally featured three to five colors applied by hand to ...
• U.S. hits China with trade violation case
... Organization in the way it operates a "famous brands" program to promote the sale of Chinese goods in other countries. "We were disturbed to find that China still appears to be using WTO-illegal measures to promote its exports, ranging from textiles ...
• Quantum leap of Celebrity Solstice
Strong architectural lines are played up by lighting and dramatically draped textiles. If you like the style of the Delano Hotel on Miami’s South Beach you’ll love the Solstice. Despite Solstice’s size, it is surprisingly intimate and offers ...
• 'Smart' textiles emerge from nanotech labs - CNBC TV- msnbc.com
Nanotechnology is shaping the fabric of our lives by helping to create not just clothes that may never wear out, but smart shirts that track all kinds of physiological data. By ...