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...surprise. "It only happens about 99% of the time." But comfort rather than speed is the point of the rail trip?most berths on this overnight run cost more than a business-class seat on Qantas. The cozy sleeping cabins are plainly but comfortably furnished and feature enough clever foldaway devices to keep you amused even if you don't spend most of the 20-hour ride in one of the three bars or the dining car. But dinner is the highlight of the trip. As you tuck into your fillet of kangaroo with native pepperleaf and plum sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 11/10/2002 | See Source »

CHRISTY'S FOLDAWAY FEDORA, $199 Bowlers, toques and sombreros. Top hats, fezzes and berets. Hats in the Belfry www.hatsinthebelfry.com sells more than 3,000 different styles of headgear, including designer fashions like this foldable fedora. Just stuff it in the tube and throw it in a suitcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...help too. A new workout machine called the Executive Power Chair is designed to help executives pump up without leaving their command posts. The power chair enables desk jockeys to do more than 20 different upper-body exercises. Built to look like classic office furniture, the power chair has foldaway exercise handles and "cashmere-like" fabric. The price: $1,199 for the deluxe model and $499 for one more suitable for junior executives. The power chair is made by NordicTrack, which is best known for machines that simulate cross-country skiing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXERCISE: Pumping Up Pencil Pushers | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...elementary school tournaments, in playgrounds with plastic pieces and foldaway cardboard checkerboards, I began to get the recognition I knew I had always deserved. I knew that there was no need to compromise: I could be both a grandmaster and President of the United States. I could beat people two and three times my size. Even adults--especially my parents--began to marvel at my abilities...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Check and Mate | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

...beats NASA's new I.RV (for Lunar Roving Vehicle), more commonly known as the "moon rover." Tucked away in the side of Falcon, the collapsible, 10-ft.-long jumble of aluminum tubing, wire and rods might easily be mistaken for a Rube Goldbergian version of an old-fashioned foldaway Murphy bed. Actually, it is one of the most unusual and expensive cars ever built (cost of the moon buggy program: $37.8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Roving the Moon | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

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