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...design of Slotline's "inertial weighted" clubs was inspired in part by the work of Karsten Solheim, the entrepreneur who developed the well-known Ping putter in the 1960s. Solheim found that if a putter's club face is heavily weighted in the heel and toe but light in the center, putts tend to go straighter. Even if the ball is not hit in the center of the club, the putter usually does not twist much. Duclos has taken Solheim's idea a logical step further. In Slotline's Big Moment putter, the weight difference between the tips...
Innovations in software are also driving the demand for computers. Snazzy graphics packages now enable computer users to become publishers in their dens, churning out newsletters with bar charts and photo-like illustrations. So-called computer-aided design programs help engineers, scientists and architects design everything from sink drains to jet planes. "Customers come in and say, 'Wow, look what we can do!' " reports Tim Le Tourneau, assistant manager of a Home Computing Centers store in San Bruno, Calif...
...centuries, the precise design of the trireme has posed a baffling mystery. Underwater archaeologists have found the wracks of ancient, sail- driven merchantmen but no remains of the oar-studded warships. Vase paintings, coins, classical writings, excavations at ancient ship sheds and inscribed- stone inventories of the Piraeus dockyards have contributed some ideas. Scholars know that trireme hulls were light, long and slender, displacing some 22 tons, measuring about 123 ft. in length and 19 ft. at the beam, with a draft of slightly more than...
Most of the art is in storage on the floor above, accessible to scholars but not overcrowding the walls below. There is no sense of display, no anxious signaling about peak experiences. Piano's design eschews the high-tech theatrics that made such a mess of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which he co- designed a decade ago. If ever one building in an architect's career made amends for another, it is this. Imagine something akin to the Frick Museum, but with fewer masterpieces and devoted to the juncture between modernism and the archaic, a place where disinterested aesthetic...
More than 60 years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of Russia and America that "each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world." Thus it has been for 42 years since the celebratory meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River at the end of World War II gave way to the deadly distrust of the postwar...