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Some people get their brainstorms while singing in the shower. Boris Popov had his during a death-defying plunge in a crashing hang-glider. "I was about 500 ft. up over Lake Owasso," says the Minnesota businessman of the 1977 accident. A powerboat that was towing his craft over the water throttled up too fast and literally pulled Popov's gossamer wings apart. "I got all caught up in the material and was petrified. I had a lot of time to think on the way down, and I promised myself that if I survived, I would figure...
Designing the new parachute was Popov's greatest challenge. Hang gliders weigh only 500 lbs., even if you include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would fill up a 50-gal. drum. Not very practical. Undaunted, the BRS engineers figured out how to pack the parachute under pressure in such a way that it takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft...
...peace process generally. As nothing else, a thriving Palestinian economy can stay the Arab fundamentalists' hand. But "if ((the West Bank's)) economy continues to more closely resemble Somalia's than Singapore's," says an Arafat adviser, "then all bets are off." With America's wallet thin, Clinton must craft a massive multilateral aid effort, much as the Administration brokered funds for Russia. Clinton can also encourage private investment and help fashion a Middle East common market. "It is yet to be proved that this is one of the great moments of history," says former Israeli President Chaim Herzog...
...past few years Hawthorne found roles that fully challenged him: as novelist-metaphysician C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands and as George III. The former brought him a 1991 Tony Award; the latter earned him, in the same year, London's Olivier Award. He is still deadpan-dismissive about his craft: "You have to understand that throughout life I have more or less played my father. George III's attitude to his sons I took from...
...BOTTOM LINE: And Bonnie and Clyde go to L.A.: this corpse opera takes the low road, but with high craft...