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...growth of stores such as R.E.I. and other purveyors of high-tech outdoor gear arises from technological advances that have spawned a host of new synthetic fabrics and materials. These innovations are unprecedentedly light and durable, not to mention increasingly resistant to heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price...
Lamm, unlike his rival, has managed to lasso a running mate: former two-term G.O.P. Congressman from Silicon Valley and high-tech executive Ed Zschau. Zschau (rhymes with wow), a Stanford-trained physicist who started his own computer business before entering Congress, has said Lamm's campaign should be "inspired chaos." His scientific analysis is already on target. Lamm has raised only about $100,000 and is not going to entice many new supporters with sound bites like this: "America is like the drunk who's looking for his keys under the streetlight even though he lost them down...
...Savannah, Georgia, where yachting was staged, a media-transport coordinator consisted of a man in a deck chair on an empty sidewalk. In Atlanta Beach, only 230 miles from the nearest real sand, beach-volleyball fans sipped daiquiris in their bathing trunks while strangers sprayed them down with high-tech, fluorescent-green water pistols. And when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers dancing attention on two members of the international press corps while others poked around in a copy...
Apparently, Rodgers was not simply throwing a snit at the end of a bad day. He is known as a ceo who treasures a reputation for outspokenness. His letter, which argues that virtually all people who are qualified to be directors of a major high-tech company happen to be white males and that putting people on the board for any other reason is stupid, was distributed to shareholders in the first-quarter report. The response, he says, has been overwhelming and almost totally favorable. Sister Doris' mail has also suggested that she should, as we used to say, stick...
Kerry reminded his audience that with several senators talking about retiring within the next two years, he is poised to become chair of the Commerce Committee's Science and Technology Subcommittee, a position from which the senator could aid greatly Massachusetts' high-tech industries...