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...Zeppelin NT is more maneuverable than a blimp, and it doesn't vibrate as much as a helicopter--making it ideal for scientific and business projects such as monitoring pipelines and detecting mines. "This ship has the kind of precision and maneuverability that you'll never find in a blimp," says Schulthess. "We can land the Zeppelin with a ground crew of just two people, while the best blimps need 17 or 18 people...
...flock harassed. In 1846, their temple barely completed, they reluctantly embarked on an extraordinary trek. It would produce another mighty settlement, near the Great Salt Lake. But Nauvoo, says Richard Ostling, co-author of the book Mormon America, quickly attained the status of a lost ideal: "the thorough expression of the Mormon kingdom of God on earth...
WALTER MATTHAU, who died of a heart attack last week at 79, made moviegoers laugh at their own venality--make that humanity. A deft character actor with star quality, he was the ideal mouthpiece for the wisecracks of Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys) and Billy Wilder (The Fortune Cookie). But he didn't need good writing to be funny. Born Walter Matuchanskayasky, he had a posture designed by Rube Goldberg and a lovely snarl of a voice that cut like a foreclosure notice. That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole...
...Bush campaign's talk of glamorous Cabinet appointments has got to be a bit annoying for Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, who's trying to use the governors' meeting, held in his home state, to press his case that he's the ideal Bush running mate - even though many Republicans don't think he's got his mind right on abortion. If only he had better Gulf War credentials...
...James Bond film. What this means is that Gehry has managed to be both intellectually respectable and popular, not just populist, a balancing act that makes his tilted towers look easy. Richard Meier is the great American architect whose stately modernist buildings, most of them in a white so ideal it could be used for the table settings at Plato's Symposium, are the very opposite of Gehry's Baroque tumblings. Yet even Meier is happy about the way Bilbao has made architecture "part of public discussion again. All of a sudden people will say, 'This is architecture...