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...Farrell, manager of New York City's Blades Board and Skate. This Daewon Round 3 board from Almost ($152, including Spitfire wheels, Bones ball bearings and grip tape by Black Magic) has pronounced curves for softer jump landings. Tip: Stick to wood. Makers are trying out metal and fiber-glass boards, but experts still rely on Canadian maple...
High-tech fighting machines are by no means the only Pentagon purchases that suffer defects. The latest snafu concerns new combat helmets. Introduced in 1983 to replace the "steel pots" in use since 1941, the helmets are made of Kevlar, a man-made fiber that is lighter, yet stronger than many metals. But after buying three-quarters of a million at $85.20 apiece, the Department of Defense discovered that three manufacturers had delivered defective versions made with scrap material. Army officials say that even though the second-rate helmets offer more protection than the old steel models, "We ordered...
...changing Cookie Monster in this way—even slightly—you change the fundamental essence of him, the (polyester) fiber of his being, making his very name something somehow impermissible. Forcing very young children to contain their desires and to feel bad about their personality should not be the way to go. Segments on carrots and exercise are fine by me, but not at the expense of my favorite monster...
...huge creature had to be remarkably light for its size, possibly only about 140 Ibs. Its wing bones were hollow tubes, and its body structure must have evolved for minimum weight. To emulate nature, MacCready's design team is using strong but lightweight parts made of carbon-fiber tubing and Kevlar cloth...
...long ago, baseball was always played on real grass in the open air, and a strike was something a batter had three of before he was out. But at the artificial-turfed, fiber-glass-roofed Metrodome in Minneapolis, the site of this year's Major League All-Star game, the talk last week was about a different sort of strike. The outcome of the contest, a dull 6-1 romp by the National League' was overshadowed by the previous day's announcement that the players intend to walk off the diamonds on Aug. 6 unless they can resolve their differences...