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...ultraportable subnotebooks, including the Compaq Contura Aero and the Toshiba Portege, had some limited success. But most of these models had to make too many compromises in order to fit into a small, efficient package...
...NASA administrator Dan Goldin yesterday told the Aero Club of Washington that the current aircraft crash rate is unacceptably high, citing predictions that the number of flying aircraft will triple in 20 years...
...with pinpoint accuracy. But some Air Force pilots consider the plane so unstable in flight that they call it the Wobbly Goblin. A congressional defense expert dismissed the public exposure of the F-117A as "pure pap -- a gimmick." This mission, he scoffed, "could have been flown with an Aero Commander, or let Mathias Rust ((the West German teenager who landed his Cessna in Red Square...
...office is buried in financial documents. "I know exactly where everything is -- unless somebody moves the paper. Then there'll be a crisis." Somehow Icahn's operation remains efficient despite the increasingly complicated latticework of his investments. Icahn raises money through an array of partnerships bearing such names as Aero Limited, Crane, Pelican and Condor. He changes the titles frequently so that his competitors cannot easily follow his activities in the market. To play, new investors must kick in a minimum of $100 million. But as Icahn told TIME, "No matter how much money they give me to invest...
...school. Instead it is a rite of commercial nostalgia: Beehive, two hours of songs from girl singers and girl groups of the '60s. Six wailing women, six guys in the house band, the stage a huge steel blue jukebox. Plus 32 wigs, 25 costume changes and 15 cans of Aero Lak hair spray each week. "Our wig designer spends so much time hair spraying," says Larry Gallagher, 35, the show's creator and director, "he has to wear a surgical mask." But that is the only extravagance. Beehive offers no frills, few risks -- just a sweet wallow in the bottomless...