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Consider: Marathoner, one of a proliferation of periodicals, calls marathoning "the Holy Grail" that runners "exhaust themselves struggling for." Bob Anderson, editor of the semimonthly On the Run, goes further: "Someone once said, 'For humanity to survive, it will have to invent a new religion.' The religion has been invented. It is the religion of the runner." Such high-flying rhetoric is common among True Runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Running a Good Thing into the Ground | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Beneath that obdurate, aluminum exterior beat two 12-volt automobile batteries, 15 electric motors, 35 relays and hundreds of solid-state integrated circuits. Arok has a motorcycle helmet for a skull, a rubber Frankenstein mask for a face, clothes-dryer exhaust hoses for arms, rubber gloves for hands and a firm, manly handshake. He is remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...will be adapted from the QSRA (for Quiet Short Haul Research Airplane), which Boeing developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plane will be ideal for commuters, since it can take off and land on extremely short runways. Reason: its four engines mounted atop the wing blow exhaust over the upper surface, creating phenomenal lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The 1980s Generation | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Harmful biological materials are prevented from escaping because the lab is sealed. "The pressure inside the p-3 labs is negative and there are exhaust systems," Leahy said. He added, however, that the human error factor in the lab work could cause harm if the prescribed National Institute of Health (NIH) guidelines are not carefully followed...

Author: By Gary G. Curtis, | Title: Work on P-3 Labs Almost Completed | 7/11/1978 | See Source »

...populated by grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?this, in Steinberg's ironic eye, is the American dream street (our equivalent of the Di Chirico piazza, repository of all unspoken fantasy) brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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