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...just wanted a comfortable T shirt to wear under his football pads, though he admits he was a bit obsessive about it. The result is a line of sweat-shedding sports clothing that more than doubled its annual sales in 2002, to $55 million. It's called Under Armour, and athletes from pro football linebackers to kids who play in rec hockey leagues regard the skintight garments as cool--in every sense of the word...
Plank got the idea for Under Armour after eight of his football teammates at the University of Maryland landed in the hospital with heat exhaustion over a weekend of practice sessions in August 1995. Plank, a senior running back and business major, managed to avoid collapse but was bothered by his soggy cotton undershirt. The thing bunched and chafed under his pads, and when soaked with sweat, it added to the load on his back. "Being short and slow," he says, "I was looking for every ounce I could spare...
...show features models, photographs, plans and original drawings. Mies, as he's widely known, had the misfortune to be working in Berlin when the Nazis came to power. In 1938 he moved to the U.S. in search of more open-minded patrons. He found a niche at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, heading the architecture department for 20 years. Mies was the first to conceive of a steel-and-glass skyscraper. Designed in the '20s, his glittering towers weren't built until the '50s - New York's Seagram Building was finished in 1958. Many of his one-story...
...commitment trials, Yoder only once had an aggressive private attorney, Edward Unsell of suburban St. Louis, Mo. Unsell called clinical psychologist Michael Armour to the stand in 1993. A supervisor at the big state hospital in St. Louis, Armour had been a witness for the state the year before, but he had changed his mind about Yoder when he actually spoke with him the following year. (His previous testimony had been based only on a review of Yoder's file.) "I had testified against him... and yet he was very appropriate in his dealings with me," Armour said in court...
...deed on the white, clapboard-and-brick house at 41 Armour Rd. was recorded on August...