But is it possible to make a bag that can survive twenty years of tides?
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To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).
But more than just the organization, there are a lot of little things that make this a good bag to keep around.
Blinded by my desire to look like her, I neglected to employ common sense to make sure the darn bag was actually functional for me.
But are the arguments compelling enough to make you munch on a bag of crunchy scorpions or sprinkle your cereal with squidgy larvae?
Clothes and fashion play a big role in Ms. Savage's personal and professional life: She originally dressed "Gossip Girl" star Blake Lively in her own clothes (notably a cashmere overcoat and book bag) to make her look more "New York" for an early screen test.
We're also worried that a slate PC designed like this won't have a way of protecting the screen from the sharp poky objects that sometimes accidentally make their way into our bag -- we'd feel much more secure with some sort of scratchproof glass up front instead of this soft plastic finish.
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And that bag of chips was enough to make Facebook an Internet giant already.
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It's also thick and heavy with a puffed-out back, and the empty cradle's sharp edges make us nervous about putting it in a bag next to more delicate items.
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He plans to make other products, like a backpack and tote bag already in the works.
To make the weight, Mr Ellicock packed a sleeping bag, climbing rope, biology textbook, ankle weights and "random bits of clothing".
They had to make sure the space created between the Zoom Air bag and the mid-sole allowed compression and deflection of the Zoom bag.
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Before you board, make a copy of your passport and have a bag with necessities like hard-to-replace medication, said Kimberly Wilson Wetty, head of the Valerie Wilson Travel's cruise department.
We think about and make our way in the world using a grab-bag of adaptive heuristics, cognitive short-cuts, and biases.
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We need to make it impossible for the taxpayers to be holding the bag when big institutions fail, if they fail.
To make the weight, Mr Ellicock is packing a sleeping bag, climbing rope, biology textbook, ankle weights and "random bits of clothing".
He said the government had no plans to introduce a plastic bag tax but was working with supermarkets to make sure more bags were reused or recycled.
Once in a while I'd make too much marinade and freeze the extra in a plastic bag.
But even without cash in hand, Migicovsky and team are moving forward with aggressive product development, a move they can make in confidence now that significant public support is in the bag.
For men, the messenger bag, a bag with a long, cross-body strap, can make a style statement.
If the product is innovative and can make them better, golfers will want to put the product in their bag.
This morning, attendees received a note warning that their has been a voluntary recall of one of the goodies in the bag: Pogoplug Video, a box that is supposed to make it easy to watch your personal video collection from any device connected to the Web.
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Not exactly the sort of endorsement that would make you want to camp out in front of the theater in a sleeping bag.
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They simulated stray radio tower signals in UL's echo-free chamber (pictured here)outside Chicago to make sure the signals wouldn't accidentally trigger a car's air bag.
Created by a woman who turned her architecture background into designs that make any woman who sports one feel glamorous and pretty, gifting a feNa bag is a winning choice.
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We can't get rid of the carcinogens in the environment, but we can make sure that our kids arrive at school each day with a reusable lunch bag full of produce from the farmers' market.
It takes an hour to make six quarts, and Mr. Mason fills each tiny jar with a pastry bag.
And, true to form, when he couldn't find a bag he liked as a gift for a friend, he decided to make his own, coming up with an entire line of archly simple, high-quality leather bags with a unisex flair.
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The researchers hope to refine the process to make both large, high yield applications as well as smaller applications, such as a something resembling a tea bag, for use on a more individual basis.
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