Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such is the image. The American reality is the mirror image: Our Mao hat is the Gap pocket...
Even the radical, gang-inspired fashion undercurrent of the underclass urban scene (Blue for Crips, red for Bloods, black and silver for everyone--Go Raiders!) percolates up into the middle class. Slumming has always been popular, but even it has been Gapified--reduced to the X hat and the Michael Jordan T-shirt. Gapification is a great neutralizer, stripping violence and excitement from the urban scene...
...bizarre room, dark because no one has bothered to change the light bulbs, is full of more than 600 demonstrations that Rueckner and his staff assemble and prepare for professors at the drop of a hat. Every year, Rueckner and his team of three full-time assistant scientists -- two physicists and a chemist -- concoct and build a dozen or so original demonstrations, which are eventually stored here. Aside from these tried and true experiments, Wolf says that when a professor has a specific wish, "we see what...
...coal mine was one of the most claustrophobic experiences of my life," says Gup. "You lie on your back on a metal sled, and the distance between the floor and ceiling is never greater than 40 inches. You're in utter darkness -- except for the light on your hard hat. You eat your lunch on your back with your pail on your belly. Twenty-four hours after you get out, the insides of your nostrils are still black with dust...
...Angeles suburb of Glendora, entrepreneur Keith Porchia cheerfully dons a hard hat to check on the progress of the 51-unit apartment complex he is developing. In Winter Springs, Fla., Sheelah Ryan, a retired real estate agent, meets with the board of the Ryan Foundation to map programs for what she calls "the new poor." Somewhere in southern Atlantic waters, Anthony Palermo, formerly of the U.S. Navy, cruises with his family aboard his own yacht, joyfully named Picked...