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...Pinesdale, Mont., volunteer fire department sprayed foam on the roof of his mother-in-law's new house, the man grabbed a baby picture off the refrigerator door and a few Mormon Scriptures from a shelf. There was no time to rescue larger items. The fires whirling down the mountain were just too near, filling the air with flurries of black cinders and sending up tall cliffs of orange flame. Overhead a massive Sikorsky helicopter dumped water into the smoke, but the time to stand and fight had passed. The man jumped into his truck and raced away, followed...
...after two full terms (and relentless scandal - impeachment even!), he looks fresher, livelier, than he did when he came into office? Clinton is a phenomenon - of resilience, of survival, of some life force (either heroic or sleeplessly cunning) that causes his admirers to marvel and his moralist critics to foam at the mouth...
...There is confusion. There are pleas for explanations. Some of the delegates are wearing red foam-and-mesh "Buchanan" hats that hopefully were given away free...
...want to introduce the Jacuzzi to newly affluent Chinese peasants. Instead of shipping the tubs from California, you simply ship the VEC unit, or cell. To make the tubs, two composite skins are draped over a foam model, and a thermochemical reaction causes them to harden into shape. (Because no metal bending is involved and the "thermoset" process uses chemistry, not immense heat, the molds cost a fraction of the conventional version.) The skins are then attached to a universal frame. The cell is closed and filled with pressurized water, which braces the skins together. Then composite materials are injected...
...director Peter Segal. Of 85 shooting days on the sequel, about 75 required Murphy to play a Klump. (To give Murphy's face time off from adhesives, a Klump-free day was scheduled each Wednesday.) It took an average of four hours to sculpt Murphy into a Klump--via foam-rubber facial appliances that had to be replaced each day and kept consistent through months of filming--then hours more for the end-of-day Klump-ectomy. "The edges are so thin and the glue is so strong, the pieces get destroyed in the process," says Baker. "So if Eddie...