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...designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled from start to finish by a single craftsman at Daniel Roth & Gérald Genta, Bulgari's workshop for its most complicated timepieces, in Le Sentier, Switzerland. A "grand complication"?as the most complex watches, like Tourbillons, are called???requires more than 3,000 production steps and 300 quality-assurance checks. Each watch can take up to a week to be assembled. No detail is ignored: at the Le Sentier atelier, as at the Bulgari workshop in Neuchâtel, there is sticky paper on the floor, and windows stay...
...country has welcomed so-called??guest workers into the U.S. since World War I, during which tens of thousands of Mexican workers were allowed in temporarily to help on the nation's farms. The idea is that when harvest time is over, they return home...
...rarely possessed by the young. Some of the great kite innovators, after all, have included such mature fellows as Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, the Wright brothers and Alexander Graham Bell, whose tetrahedral model once lifted a man 168 ft. According to Wyatt Brummitt, author of a 1971 book called???what else? ?Kites, it helps a kiter to be "slightly nutty." Brummitt, 81, adds that enthusiasts must also have "a little imagination and a little sense of serenity to enjoy the sense of extension." A major attraction of kiting is that it is a peaceful pastime in which competition...
...qualify him as the commission's most controversial and audible member. He began filling that distinction right from the start by suggesting that deaths on the campus could be linked to White House criticism of students. For that Rhodes drew the wrath of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who called???vainly ?for Rhodes' resignation just three days after his appointment...
...sport. But a true champion's feats endure because of what the champion himself adds: an undying spirit of competition, an ability to inspire awe, a willingness to gamble on losing, the guts to lose and rise again, an elusive mixture of spirit and showmanship. Whatever it is called???flair, class, style or what Hemingway once termed "grace under pressure"?it is the quality that breeds sport legend...