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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some gear actually does work a little better than the earlier models it is supposed to supersede. At Easton Aluminum's big test lab in California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geared to The Max | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...lunatic as Jackson's soft eccentricities make him appear in the skeptical public eye, he had surely convinced the world of his devotion to children and his empathy with them. It was as if, deprived of a normal childhood, he wanted to create a paranormal one in his Neverland lab. Bring on the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Who's Bad? | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...million Plant Stress Lab at Texas Tech University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Potatoes Don't Even Vote | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

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