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Three Americans swept the 200; up the track they stopped and lighted on one knee with Lewis in the middle banding Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in his long arms. Afterward again the prepared statement: "It was great to jog around holding the flag with two other guys and not just by myself." Now only the relay separated him from Owens, and Lewis appeared ready to go all out. "I have three guys that are unparalleled in front of me." Though early-round understudies are permissible in the relay, he staffed every round. "If anyone drops the baton," Tellez said...
Work? Yes, indeed. Ergonomic furniture design-that is, designing for the human frame-is confirming what some people suspected long ago: the mind seems to work better when the body is firmly and comfortably supported in a reclining position. Thomas Jefferson liked to read and write while taking his ease on a specially adapted chaise longue. Mark Twain and Winston Churchill often worked lying back, their heads supported, facing their books or writing pads at eye level. In such a position, they were able to prevent many a pain in the neck...
...lounge chair, which Diffrient named for Jefferson, has none of the sleek elegance of the chaise longues designed by Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, nor the coziness of the Eames lounge chair. But then, none of them is adjustable and completely comfortable. In designing his Jefferson chair, Diffrient set aside all questions of form and tried to think like an engineer. After much trial and error, he arrived at a design that suspends the chair on a central axis that pivots much as the body does at the waist and hips. The pivoting motion is controlled...
...hidden suggestions of the bubonic plague--these songs translate the horrors of the adult world into children's language. The death, madness, and devil rituals on this EP may be common but Oh-Ok's handling of them in childish terms is quite original, something along the lines of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", which turned an acid trip into an Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale...
...Jefferson had done, Stanton and her fellow rebels set forth their grievances against the tyrannies of the authorities. A respectable married woman of that day could not, in general, own property, testify in court against her husband, sign a contract or keep her earnings. The tyrant responsible for her plight, according to the Declaration of Seneca Falls, was Man, who "has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...