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...sailors discovered floating on the waves a 15-ft. section of the 747's 35-ft.-high vertical tail fin. Further searching in the water turned up more than 30 other plane parts, most notably a 10-ft-long portion of the rudder assembly and a 104-lb. fiber-glass duct containing tubing and valves that had been attached to an auxiliary power unit in the tail section (see diagram...
...Equa, designed in collaboration with Don Chadwick, there were 27. Before Equa, there were two kinds of office chairs: seat and back could be separate, as in Ergon, or they could be one solid shell. Stumpf and Chadwick found a new material (Du Pont's Rynite, a reinforced fiber glass) and thereby an ingenious third design: the Equa shell is continuous, but a graceful H-shaped slice is carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces. "One day I took an X-Acto knife on one of our little models," Stumpf...
Walk on the moon, and people want a piece of you. It can get to a guy. For Apollo 11 commander NEIL ARMSTRONG, the fiber that finished him was hair. An Ohio barber sold clippings of Armstrong's hair for $3,000 to a middleman, who got them to a Connecticut collector of curls from Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Marilyn Monroe and others. When news got back to Armstrong, he had his lawyer shoot a letter to the barber demanding the return of his hair or a $3,000 donation to charity. But the barber had already spent the cash...
BENEFITS Strength training and other strenuous exercises tear down muscle fiber. During periods of rest, muscles repair and rebuild themselves, getting thicker and stronger. Exercise enables the heart to pump with greater ease during times of rest...
...food - and their teacher is delighted. The kids, 11- and 12-year-olds from the town of Laventie in northern France, finger fleshy chunks of mango with fascination and wince as they suck on lime slices. During the course of the morning, the class learns that fruits contain minerals, fiber, sugar and vitamins. "Who knows why we need vitamin C?" asks Carole de Bailleul, a nutritionist employed by the local school district. Three hands shoot up. "Without it we become tired," answers Margo Demarey, with gleeful enthusiasm. If only more of Europe's children knew as much about healthy food...