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    <description>The way things look.</description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:09:19 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Listen to Slate's panel on design featuring Adam Gopnik, Jonathan Adler, Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami, and Paula Scher.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Last night, Slate hosted a panel on the state of design at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Adam Gopnik moderated, quizzing potter Jonathan Adler, architect Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami, and graphic designer Paula Scher about their early influences, toughest clients, and most interesting projects.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2214797/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:19 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>A brief history of the toothpick.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Charles Forster was a marketing genius who might have sold a side of beef to a vegetarian. He was born in 1826 in Charlestown, Mass., into an old and aristocratic New England family. While working for his uncle's import/export business in Brazil, he noticed that the natives had beautiful teeth, which he attributed to their use of handcrafted toothpicks. At a time when virtually everything was becoming mass produced, Forster vowed to make a fortune producing wooden toothpicks so cheaply by machine that he could export them to South America.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2177109/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Henry Petroski</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:28:18 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Muji is opening U.S. stores. Hallelujah!</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Among the design conscious, the most exciting news of the year has been that Muji—the Japanese retailer of nondescript, mercifully plain wares—is opening two stores in New York City. Muji's SoHo store, its first in North America, will open in mid-November; the company's flagship in Midtown Manhattan should open sometime next year.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174251/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Michael Hsu</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:51:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How modernism got its curves.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  A look at the extraordinary career of designer Eva Zeisel.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2125342/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2966" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2966" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Virginia Postrel</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:41:30 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The Army's new camouflage.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  After years of study—and the field deployment of thousands of prototype uniforms in Operation Enduring Freedom—the U.S. Army recently unveiled a new uniform, dubbed the Army Combat Uniform, or ACU. It will become standard-issue for all deployed troops in the fall of 2005. You can count on one hand the number of major uniform upgrades undertaken by the Army in the last century, so this sweeping sartorial redesign begs further analysis. What does the ACU tell us about the state of soldiering?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2106359/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>design</category>
  <author>Tom Vanderbilt</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:20:05 EST</pubDate>
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