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...more compelling story was that Saudi Arabia -- touted by Washington for months as the keystone of a new moderate Arab alliance -- would not attend the conference as a full member. The official tried to persuade the reporters that King Hussein's warm but vague words deserved the headlines. "Fasten your seat belts -- emergency spin control," cracked one reporter...
...book's tone is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's novels never fasten down on a specific moment in time and progress from there. Some of his more memorable characters are the couple on airplane in Cat's Cradle, who boast that they are Hoosiers. Natural, comfortable feelings of closeness are never present in these novels, whose characters find satisfaction only in artificial, relatively cold institutions...
Welcome aboard Marriage Flight 1990, and fasten your seat belts: it's going to be a bumpy ride. Today's typical marriage is a dual-career affair. That means two sets of job demands, two paychecks, two egos -- and a multitude of competing claims on both spouses' time, attention and energy. The two-job flight path is marked by demands for fairness and parity that require some mobility, a dose of originality and a high degree of flexibility...
Baby boomers are discovering that cloth diapers are not the hassle or expense they expected. A diaper service typically costs $11 a week, in contrast to about $15 for disposables. Safety pins and pinpricks are passe, since today's diapers can be slipped into cloth wraps that fasten with Velcro. "Everything is there for you," says Maureen Medway of Ringoes, N.J., who relies on a diaper service for her newborn son. "There's no reason not to use cloth...
...combatants are turning to even more exotic technologies. A small Denver company called Innovisions Research has introduced a line of Stealth attachments, which fasten to the front of an automobile and use microwave- absorbing materials like those in the Stealth bomber to reduce the car's visibility to police radar. The company claims that a speeding vehicle that would normally be detected from 4,000 ft. away may not show up in Smokey's gun until...