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...even the most sweet-tempered soul, August is a test of patience and ingenuity, when office workers lunch by a fountain and hope for a strong wind. Shoppers browse through Chicago's Hammacher Schlemmer, lured by inflatable water shoes (pontoons for the feet), or a solar-powered ventilated golf cap, or, for sun worshipers who don't know any better, a sun-tracking beach chair that rotates 360 degrees for maximum exposure. For those who prefer refrigeration to recreation, swank, Dallas-based Neiman Marcus is prepared to cater a private picnic for customers in its fur vault, which is kept...
Temple's head basketball coach, John Chaney, called the NCAA a "racist organization." Dale Brown, head basketball coach at Louisiana State, said, "What they're saying is, 'We have a colored fountain here, a white fountain there. We'll allow you to drink out of the white fountain if you pass this test...
...monument to rival New York's Statue of Liberty and St. Louis' Gateway Arch, the city of Los Angeles last week came up with something so bizarre that visitors may never forget it. After surveying about 150 entries, including a giant bird, a gargantuan baseball glove and a towering fountain of water, the selection committee settled on Steel Cloud, designed by New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown Los Angeles...
...around Cincinnati live some 50 families who in an earlier time of myth and legend might have been accused of drinking from Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth. Yet even in today's pragmatic, scientific world, their arteries do seem to carry an elixir of long life. The members of these families, says investigator Dr. Dennis Sprecher of the University of Cincinnati, "typically live for long periods of time, into their 80s and 90s, with very few instances of heart disease, if indeed they have...
...Hecht came looking for a tribute to a great man. He found an empty windswept park, a bunch of flowers and a stone fountain. Mr. Hecht, you were looking in the wrong place. Tributes to a great man are not found in statues, or parks or eternal flames. They are not found in TV specials, films or books. They are found in the hearts of people inspired by his greatness; by people determined to carry on the work he began...