Word: geared
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...explains. He has since teamed up with two Harvard grads and former teammates: Kobie Fuller ’02 and Cristof O’Donnell ’01. O’Donnell is a triathlete currently training for the Olympics who will wear the company’s gear as part of a sponsorship deal...
...jewelry box. "You can't be too careful protecting this enormously valuable intelligence trove," says Army General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the joint task force that runs the detainee operation on the 45-sq.-mi. base. And so there are constant perimeter patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks. Getting out legally doesn't seem much easier. The detainees--660 suspects from 44 countries, scooped up in the war on terrorism--cannot challenge their arrests or plead their cases or even talk to a lawyer...
...watch the Yacobians experiment with their cutting-edge gear, it's hard to decide whether I'm glimpsing the future or just an adventurous family getting the most out of some free toys. They're certainly having fun with the stuff. Paige, 9, plays a helicopter-flying game on the Icebox while Stuart, 11, stands nearby, using the tablet's browser to start his science homework. Later their mother takes over the Icebox to print Allrecipes.com's instructions for Beef-and-Noodle Bake (using an HP ink-jet, another loaner, that sits where a toaster oven might once have been...
Dash started Rocawear apparel in 1999. Sales of its jackets, sweatbands and tank tops now total about $300 million a year, making the company one of the major urban-gear brands, alongside Phat Fashions and Sean John. "I like the nylon windbreakers, the logo--Rocawear's stuff is just rugged," says Simmons. "People shouldn't be asking me about what I've taught Damon Dash. They should be asking me about what I've learned from...
...beginning in the 1980s, as China's drive to capitalism kicked into higher gear, Beijing extended market reforms to health care?with disastrous consequences. Local health bureaus were stripped of their government funding and forced to become financially self sufficient. To survive, many local clinics eschewed public-minded immunization drives for more profitable ventures, like selling medicine and services at inflated prices. The social pitfalls of this system were laid bare in a 1998 United Nations-led survey, which found that almost half of those who had fallen below China's poverty line did so only after suffering from...