Word: fiber
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...Stars & Stripes crew member who runs North Sail, one of the world's largest sailmaking firms. Space-age materials developed in the 1980s have replaced canvas because they are much lighter and allow the sail to stretch less with the wind. The latest sails include laminated polymers and woven fibers that offer greater strength and can maintain sail shape better in all directions, making the sail more able to adjust to wind changes. America 3's technical director, Heiner Meldner, a physicist who once designed nuclear weapons, says his sails are a composite of fibers, including carbon and liquid-crystal...
...unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness of the painting, so that the illusion is nearly absolute. The pencil and chalk marks on the board look just like pencil and chalk, every grain line in the cheap wood and fiber in a torn paper edge is there, and the play of the yellow and blue rectangles and envelopes against the square of tape has the lovely spareness of a Motherwell collage...
Ball parks do not determine who falls in love with the O's. The fiber of a Baltimore fan is distinct from the fiber of either of Harvard student or a Bostonian. And although I can't pen myself as either a Baltimore resident (I'm from Virginia) or as a typical baseball fan (I'm female), I'm nonetheless drawn to "Oriole Magic...
Through generous alumni donations and fund-raising by individual houses, equipment has been upgraded to include carbon-fiber oars and electronic "cox-box" systems. The boats remain traditional in hull-shape and undifferentiated from one another, in order to avoid unfair advantages between the crews...
...dismantled two models in Iraq last year, one an incomplete version with a barrel 165 yards long. But Western intelligence agents in the Middle East are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary 1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such guns...