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Masakazu's secret for a long corporate life? Deliver lasting products and stand by them. "At Shitennoji," he says, "someone from our company is there every day." And perhaps forever. --By Hanna Kite...
...Kerry kite-surfed the mystical wave “Electability” to the Democratic presidential prize—persuading jittery Deaniacs, and Washington-based party wiseguys, that an elite Massachusetts liberal (but an elite Massachusetts liberal with medals!) would be the strongest candidate against the most sophisticated, most impressively well-constructed GOP campaign in American history...
...they can make an argument, regardless of its philosophical implications, and not own up to those implications,” says Will Saletan, chief political correspondent for Slate magazine and author of a recent book on abortion politics, Bearing Right. “They think that arguments are like kites: they can float them up in the wind and pull them back when they want to. But what happens is the wind breaks your string and takes your kite away. The wind here is choice. When [pro-lifers] concede that abortion needs to be reduced through each woman?...
When Andy Wardley first started entering kite-flying competitions back in the mid-1990s, hardly anyone was doing elaborate tricks. Instead, judges evaluated contestants on such technical skills as precision steering and control. Part of the problem was that kites weren't designed to let flyers do things like back spins and flips. So Wardley decided to make his own model, the Airbow, inspired by the tetrahedron-shaped kite invented by Alexander Graham Bell. At once stable and easy to fly, it allows trick flyers to perform stunts like stopping and restarting in midair. "It's like flying a helicopter...
...market for a kite, this is the place to shop. We spotted this flying shark under Traditional Kites in Kites for Kids--just scroll past the 12-ft. Jellyfish and 25-ft. Panel Dragon. There's also a full line of flags, banners and wind socks...