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...computer will even turn on, I’m a happy camper with my MacBook in hand. When I need to do something that is a little bit more technically complex and don’t mind taking the time to tweak, I’ll use my custom-built PC. And thanks to Boot Camp, I can get back to my biggest time-waster—massacring zombies in Left 4 Dead—on both...
...this straight. When the McCaughey septuplets were born in 1997, President Clinton called to congratulate the parents, who were given a free 12-passenger van, Pampers for life, furniture, food and a custom-built house. Last spring, when Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar got pregnant with their 18th child, they announced it on the Today show, and their reality-TV show launched that fall. When Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26, she got revulsion, ridicule and death threats. A talk-radio host who called her a freak said his listeners were prepared to boycott any company...
...registrar Rosin his nervousness. While Uecker's motorized Tactile Rotating Structure, 1961, looks as if it could travel to Melbourne under its own steam, each of the works had to be wrapped in waterproof tar paper, thermally insulating polystyrene and shock-absorbent polyethylene before being packed in its own custom-built fireproof pine case. In Venice, the five boxes were lifted by crane onto a barge in front of the museum and borne to the port of Tronchetto, from where they were trucked to Frankfurt to join a cargo flight with about 50 crates from Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Watching every...
Late last year, Ergas launched Atmosphere, a $20 million, custom-built, 28-passenger ship, with which he plans to merge the family tradition of making money with his love of fly fishing in the isolated fjords of Chilean Patagonia. Charging fly fisherman $15,000 a week and ecotourists $10,000, Ergas' lure is the chance to travel in style to the end of the earth - and leave no trace. Onboard, it's like a trendy Scandinavian penthouse: white floors, outdoor jacuzzis, ambient grooves trickling through iTunes. The staff of 33 read like a Who's Who of Chilean military...
...driving an Indy car at 220 m.p.h., he says, the aerodynamics are so good, you can pretty much floor it all the time. "You're thinking about what you're going to have for dinner while you're sitting there," he says. Stock cars are heavier, 700-h.p. Neanderthals, custom-built throwback machines. "At the end of a straightaway, you've got to use the brakes and force 3,400 lbs. to change direction, which it doesn't want to do." And you've got other drivers who think nothing of sitting on your rear bumper, stealing your downdraft, making...