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Brody collects some laughable racquets, including one made from a tube filled with flowing fluid. Yet he endorses much of today's tennis tech. A larger racquet surface, he says, does help propel even off-center shots. And a thicker "beam" or frame produces more power and stability. "The extra length in the handle will give you something too," he notes, especially on the serve. (The higher up your serve starts, the better angle it has into the service box.) He's more dubious about the new ultralight titanium racquets. Although a lighter racquet is easier to maneuver, many players...
...Postal Service had people vote on which icons represented the '60s best. That's all the opening Kraft and the Enterprise Stamp Committee needed. The battle is won. What will Kraft do now? "If I found another project I could feel passionate about," says Kraft, "I might beam aboard again...
...such small steps is progress made. Beijing's leaders seem immune to bullying, but dogged dialogue and economic advancement are persuading them to allow more personal liberties. Chinese citizens today lead remarkably free lives, as masters of their own fates and fortunes. Satellite dishes and the Internet beam in unauthorized information undreamed of a few years ago. Beijing has slowly been enshrining into law such individual prerogatives as property protection and the right to sue. The Chinese can even mock their leaders and criticize government policies--in the privacy of their homes. Beijing, in theory, opened itself up to international...
Judging from what I saw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta last week, Blow Up Stuff would be popular with lots of other gamers too. Never before have so many folks been assembled in one place to grab onto force-feedback joysticks and to bludgeon, laser-beam and Gatling-gun one another--at least not in peacetime. Halls the size of 35 football fields were jammed with computer- and video-game companies showing off their latest wares, in the understated tone that is a hallmark of such conventions. My fillings still rattle like castanets when I speak...
Junior guard Mike Beam shot an amazing 51.3 percent from distance, the fourth-best mark in the nation, and the team overall fired up threes with 42-percent accuracy...