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• Laptop-in-a-bag wins Wal-Mart challenge
HP's Pavilion dv6929, which Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores are selling for $798, was singled out for a design that reduces packaging by 97 percent and requires a quarter fewer trucks to deliver the laptops to stores given their smaller size when ...
• Need a hobby? Try collecting rainwater
A fixture of building design in the Roman empire and in outposts along the American frontier, rainwater harvesting is making a comeback in states including Texas, North Carolina, and California.
• Deluxe designer hotels
Just this past July, fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld signed up with Dubai-based investment company Dubai Infinity to design a hotel and 80 residential villas as a part of Isla Moda in Dubai, dubbed the "world's first fashion island.
• Cruise lines change course to cut fuel
While it is paramount to offer a cruise itinerary that a guest wants to sail, the design and sequence of that itinerary can be evaluated to minimize the distance between ports of call and the speed necessary to accomplish that itinerary," Fagan said.
• Republicans (1209)
After a largely peaceful protest by upwards of 5,000, including many families with children, smaller groups of protestors broke off -- apparently by design -- as many formed ranks by linking arms.