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05 Fashion & Lifestyle<br />
Friday, <strong>August</strong> <strong>30</strong>, <strong>2019</strong> | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 Pages<br />
<strong>2019</strong> Rolex Awards for Enterprise laureates<br />
Krithi Karanth and Grégoire Courtine<br />
Meet two of the five Rolex Awards for Enterprise laureates, whose inspiring projects will improve life on Earth as part of the<br />
watchmaker's Perpetual Planet campaign<br />
Rolex, a firm supporter of explorers<br />
and individuals to discover more<br />
about planet Earth and to find ways<br />
to preserve the natural world, has<br />
launched the Perpetual Planet<br />
campaign this year to further its<br />
commitment to maintaining the wellbeing<br />
of our planet.<br />
One of the three key pillars of<br />
the campaign is the Rolex Awards<br />
for Enterprise, an award to foster<br />
entrepreneurship, advance human<br />
knowledge and protect our cultural<br />
heritage and the environment. (The<br />
other two are marine conservationist<br />
Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue initiative<br />
and Rolex's deepened partnership with<br />
the National Geographic Society.)<br />
After a few rounds of presentations<br />
and selection by an independent jury,<br />
five Laureates were unveiled in a<br />
ceremony in Washington in June.<br />
Here, two of the Laureates—Indian<br />
conservation scientist Krithi Karanth<br />
and French scientist Grégoire<br />
Courtine—reveal more about their<br />
projects and their ambitions to solving<br />
Earth's key challenges.<br />
KRITHI KARANTH, 40<br />
As the chief conservation scientist<br />
at the Centre for Wildlife Studies in<br />
India, she wants to reduce the friction<br />
between wildlife and people living<br />
Gucci’s new<br />
Grip watches are<br />
inspired by Skaters<br />
of the 1970s<br />
Gucci introduces its new watch line,<br />
Grip, inspired<br />
by skaters of<br />
the late 1970s.<br />
The name of<br />
the collection<br />
references the<br />
way a rider’s<br />
sneakers<br />
stick to the<br />
grip tape on a<br />
skateboard.<br />
Giving off<br />
clear vintage<br />
vibes, Gucci’s<br />
Grip watches<br />
feature three<br />
windows on<br />
the face, as<br />
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of the ’70s.<br />
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as with leather straps. You will also be<br />
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near Indian national parks. Every<br />
year, there are numerous cases which<br />
see animals and humans clashing,<br />
resulting in collateral damage, injury<br />
and death on both sides. Karanth’s<br />
team aims to mitigate the situation by<br />
reducing threats, raising conservation<br />
awareness and providing education to<br />
local communities, as well as assisting<br />
with compensation claims through<br />
Wild Seve, a toll-free helpline.<br />
Nike's rare<br />
'Moon Shoes'<br />
sold for over R3 cr<br />
A pair of 1972 running shoes, one of the<br />
first pairs made by Nike Inc, sold for<br />
$437,500 (over Rs 3 crore) on Tuesday,<br />
shattering the record for a pair of<br />
sneakers at public auction.<br />
The so-called Nike "Moon Shoe,"<br />
designed by Nike co-founder and track<br />
coach Bill Bowerman for runners at<br />
the 1972 Olympics trials, was the top lot<br />
in the first-ever auction dedicated to<br />
Creative Artist Agency<br />
"We’ve implemented this system at a<br />
local level successfully and we want<br />
to scale it upwards. We are now in<br />
two of India’s premier parks, and we<br />
hope to move into six more parks.<br />
Fundamentally, the toll-free helpline<br />
can be systemised. What is more<br />
important: if someone calls, you have<br />
to show up at the scene soon after.<br />
We are happy to share this idea with<br />
anyone in the world, and use this<br />
structure to help other people."<br />
— Krithi Karanth<br />
GRÉGOIRE COURTINE, 44<br />
An avid sportsman himself,<br />
the French scientist, who is an<br />
associate professor at the Center<br />
for Neuroprosthetics and Brain<br />
Mind Institute at the Swiss Federal<br />
Institute of Technology and a clinical<br />
investigator in the Department of<br />
Neurosurgery of the University<br />
Hospital of Vaud—both in Lausanne,<br />
Switzerland—has met many young<br />
people who have been paralysed due<br />
to serious sports injuries. Hence, he<br />
is developing an electronic “bridge”<br />
that will be implanted between the<br />
patient’s brain and lumbar spinal<br />
cord. The “bridge”, which is supported<br />
by wireless technology, will link<br />
brain signals controlling voluntary<br />
movement with electrical stimulation<br />
sneakers at Sotheby's auction house in<br />
New York.<br />
The handmade "Moon Shoe," with a<br />
waffle sole pattern, was one of only 12<br />
pairs ever made and the pair that were<br />
auctioned on Tuesday are the only ones<br />
known to exist in an unworn condition,<br />
Sotheby's said.<br />
The buyer was Canadian investor and<br />
car collector Miles Nadal.<br />
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of the lower spinal cord—there is<br />
potential for this to encourage nerve<br />
regrowth and thus, restore control of<br />
the legs.<br />
"If treatment is started early, then<br />
there is a good chance of recovery. It<br />
will help the paralysed to walk and<br />
their nerve fibres to grow again, so an<br />
individual can walk without electrical<br />
stimulation."<br />
— Grégoire Courtine
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