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They were the waterborne roadsters of the jazz age, built of mahogany, bedecked with nickel-silver fittings, powered by rumbling six-cylinder engines and capable of slicing nose-down through the chop at a brisk 40 m.p.h. But during the late 1950s and '60s, the arrival of lighter, carefree fiber-glass hulls persuaded many boat buyers that the rot-prone wooden models were a thing of the past. Gary Scherb, who spent his summers back then working in the boatyards on Lake Hopatcong, N.J., sadly recalls the time when one of his bosses ordered 40 of the wooden craft sawed...
...prove tougher to live down than Bush's description of Reagan's "voodoo economics." But Gore made nice enough in his postprimary endorsement to be invited to Brookline for an interview. He helps in the Border States and the South, possibly even in California, where his future-oriented interests (fiber optics and the greenhouse effect) might make up for the entertainment industry's unhappiness with his wife's much publicized campaign against rock lyrics...
...backbone of the system is a vast temporary network connecting 9,000 telephones and 250 computers. To handle the torrent of news and messages passing among the machines, the Democrats laid down 23 miles of fiber-optic cable, each strand of which can simultaneously carry thousands of digital signals. The flow of information will be managed by software from Novell, a Utah-based firm that specializes in getting machines of different makes to work together...
...surfaces will have a mechanical backup system so that "whatever the airplane is capable of, the pilot can get full response," a spokesman says. Nonetheless, mechanical linkages will no doubt be obsolete someday. Boeing is even studying the feasibility of controls that will be connected by light waves through fiber-optic cables...
...outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat tender for sauteing. Yet they eat armored slugs that they call escargots! And they never heard of sloppy joes with fiber glass...