Word: kevlar
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...Just when things had started to calm down, we were warned that Iraqi special-ops forces were nearby. We put on our helmets and Kevlar vests and hunkered down in our tents. There would be no air cover, given the weather. Our unit couldn't withstand an attack by tanks or grenades-hell, the wind nearly took...
...World Trade Center attack created a lot of interest in ways to get people out of skyscrapers in a hurry. Here's a novel solution: the AMES-1, an evacuation system that looks like an amusement-park water slide. A Kevlar rescue chute is installed in the outer wall of a building. In an emergency the unit springs open and the chute uncoils to the ground. It takes about 19 seconds to slide to safety from the top floor of an 11-story building. INVENTOR Eli Nir AVAILABILITY Now, $20,000 TO LEARN MORE www.ames-1.com...
Posen already plays their game like an old hand. A lifelong New Yorker, he has networked more tightly than Kevlar. He went to the same high school as celebrity-loving painter Julian Schnabel's daughters Stella and Lola. Stella is now his stylist--"and my muse," he says. At an art opening, he met Interview magazine editor Ingrid Sischy, possibly the most connected woman in New York City, who in turn introduced him to powerhouse publicist and show producer Ed Filipowski of KCD (clients include Tom Ford and Versace), who agreed to represent Posen for free...
...crowd of 5,000 in the town of Uri. "This is not like the elections of the past," he declares. Abdullah is a good performer and an easy charmer. Within minutes hope is written across the faces in the audience. But as he speaks, Abdullah stands on the same Kevlar anti-shrapnel blanket that protected his father, the current chief minister; behind him, security officials are manning a device that jams signals that could detonate a remote-controlled bomb. "This time everything is new," says Abdullah. What he means is, it could...
...management firm, read Natural Capitalism and invited Amory Lovins to speak at the company. To an audience of 400 managers, Lovins, a globetrotting consultant who makes his home at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, posed questions the group had never heard. How do spiders spin threads stronger than Kevlar but without factories? How might Exxon officials have cleaned up Alaska after the Valdez disaster if they had known that hair absorbs oil better than anything else? Says Haythornthwaite: "He had us eating out of the palm of his hand...