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...heavy-duty cash. Every so often a few tons of wet, filthy feathers are delivered to the abandoned factory Emery bought in Wheaton, Mo. (pop. 712). Emery, an industry veteran who specialized in removing meat from bone, sends the glop through a maze of machinery he cobbled together to clean, dry and position the feathers for slicing. Finally, a giant contraption with three vacuumized tubes separates the quills from tiny bits of now pristine feather fluff. Here's where it gets interesting: this airy fiber, it turns out, is remarkably strong. It's as sturdy as nylon, 60% lighter than...
...Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, thinking the museum had selected an Italian architect, Tony Gucci. In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture, of Frank Gehry's voluptuous Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, MOMA has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version of the glass-and-steel box that the museum first championed in the 1930s, years before that style was adopted for corporate headquarters everywhere...
...feet were slipping around, so I walk off the dance floor and my feet were covered in blood. And I was like “That’s bad. I can’t feel anything.” So I went to the bathroom to clean it up, and one of my teammates was in there and she was like, “Oh my God! You need to go to the hospital and get stitches right now.” And I was like “Oh, I’ll be fine. Let me dance...
...Often a clean athlete’s biggest fear is that no one will appreciate their hard-earned success as honest. In allowing this suspicion to dominate our sports psyches, we lose two of the most extraordinary traits intrinsic in athletic competition: appreciation of the natural capabilities of the human mind and body and fair play (i.e. that everyone really is starting from the same line...
...person and there is no way to ensure that all competitors will subscribe to the same standards of integrity. In a period of rapid medical advancement and designer steroids, will the playing field ever be even again? And as long as there are dirty athletes competing, can the clean...