Word: felted
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...lightbulb, Ford had his Model T, and Jan Vinzenz Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. "I felt a little like MacGyver," he says of building the contraption...
Swimming in the Tracer I noticed the compression in my legs was greater than with any other suit I've worn. It made me feel explosive and helped me kick effectively. The suit felt light, like I was swimming in saltwater, and although it wasn't the most comfortable thing in the world - it took 20 minutes to get into - it was fast...
...squad found its medal rhythm. Flowing routines by Jonathan Horton and Justin Spring, both of whom landed squarely to punctuate their determination, pushed the team to second behind the Chinese. "For a bunch of first timers, they did amazingly well" says Miles Avery, the Hamms' coach. "People felt without Paul and Morgan we had nothing. But we had a lot left...
...felt that we couldn't afford that people lose confidence in the banks," says acting Central Bank president David Amaglobeli, 32, an unflappable Oregon State University graduate, whom I meet in the central bank office, a grand old building with high ceilings and frescoes and gilt-edged windows dating from the Russian Empire. Amaglobeli's family became refugees during the Abkhazia conflict in 1992. He says the current crisis is stirring bad memories. "I remember the smell of gunfire, the smell of war in the air. It was very painful to see the loss of territory, people falling into poverty...
...table. Sometimes there's a little profiling going on. Like, "They're from England or France. We don't want to wait on them because they don't know how to tip." One waiter I know flat out refused to wait on women. He wouldn't do it. He felt they were cheap tippers. And there's a reality that women usually eat less than men, so their checks are smaller and the tips can be smaller. But he was misogynistic. He wouldn't wait on kids either. He would say, "I'm not Ronald McDonald...