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Bronfman has known Clinton since 1977, when he first ran for governor of Arkansas. Despite personal attacks made by his opponents, friends extol Clinton's moral fiber...
...synthetic fabrics and materials. These innovations are unprecedentedly light and durable, not to mention increasingly resistant to heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price from $200 to $900, today's high-tech tents often feature near-vertical walls, gear lofts, "mud rooms" and windows for star gazing...
...There's not a procrastinating fiber in her body," he said...
...into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground and proceeds to rocket, upside-down, toward the bar hanging nearly 20 ft. above his head. He has barely cleared the bar when one official turns to the other with an unusual confession. "Damn," he exclaims. "Check out Bubka. Wish that guy'd agree...
...Unabom task force has long held in hand are not foolproof. The few fingerprints recovered from the Unabomber's efforts, say investigators, are missing the central whorls; even if Kaczynski's matched, a jury might not be persuaded. Unknown to many, the bombs had yielded bits of hair and fiber, but the cops could not be sure they were the perpetrator's. Nor were they sure they had collected enough DNA from the bomber's stamps and parcels to match the suspect's saliva...