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...terms of muscle power and barked knuckles is impressive. Despite its size, two people can rig the sails of the Procyon in about five minutes; normally, readying a boat this large can take half an hour for a crew of eight. Slick aerodynamic design and a hydraulically powered keel let the Procyon sail at speeds of up to 15 knots: roughly 15% faster than a conventionally designed boat of comparable size. Automatic winches furl and unfurl the Procyon's Kevlar mainsail and jib horizontally, at a finger's touch, without human assistance. The unique, sculptured boom eliminates the need...
...attention because it wipes out traditional school districts and replaces them with a system in which parents list three of the city's 14 elementary schools as their top choices. Students are then assigned to one of the three, provided that the racial balance of the school remains on keel...
...married an architectural historian and went as far afield as Samarkand. Occasionally her work strikes an apocalyptic, Kandinsky-like note. One example is the great Painterly Construction of 1920, with its jagged black shapes and whirling cones of force playing across a landscape in turmoil. But generally the keel of feeling is even, the track straight as an arrow. Here was a determined young painter following her nose, with a passionate sense of the edge where formal research bursts into sparks and arpeggios of lyric feeling...
...getting very, very tough to maintain an even keel here," says Lahaie. "[Drivers] just want to get the cabs out there as much as they can. There's no such thing as a 40-hour week...
...name of Alan Bond was riding very high in America, and in Australia he was a hero. "Bondy," as his country called him, was the prime mover in the syndicate that funded the design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...