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...foot-3-inch, 200-pounder isn’t a one-man team. He’s a one-man athletic program...
Every Monday and Thursday morning, scores of Harvard undergraduates wake up early to engage in the ritual of plastering the Yard with hundreds of eight and one-half by 11 inch pieces of colored paper. Armed with rolls of tape and stacks of paper, these students fight the cold and the wind to represent their student groups. They should all still be asleep...
...reached 561 ft., the deepest any human has ever dived on one breath of air. A spokesman for Mares, the diving-equipment manufacturer that sponsored the event, said the water pressure Mestre endured was "akin to having an NFL linebacker standing on every single square inch of her body." At this depth her lungs were compressed to the size of oranges, and her heart had slowed to fewer than 20 beats a minute. Mestre reached up to inflate the air bag--like an underwater balloon--that was to take her back up to the surface...
...been hearing about nanotechnology for years, but this fall it finally landed in our lap--literally. These pants look and feel ordinary, but they have undergone a special chemical treatment to give them "nanowhiskers"--millions of tiny fibers one hundred-thousandth of an inch long--that help them repel spills. Eddie Bauer and Lee, among others, are gambling that the fabric will give them a leg up on the competition. INVENTOR Nano-Tex, LLC AVAILABILITY Now, $35 for Lee Performance Khakis TO LEARN MORE www.nano-tex.com...
...stars and pop idols who are paid to be in public - presiding at boutique openings, promoting their CDs, shilling for breast-enhancement creams - and who, when they?re on their own, can step in the usual amount of trouble. It?s also got more gossipmongers and paparazzi per square inch than any place in the world, and dozens of newspapers, like Apple Daily and the Oriental Daily News, that are feverishly devoted to exposing the dark sides of bright people. The salacious news generated by this former colony makes U.S. tabloids seem lazy and reticent by comparison...