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...fiber composites and crammed with advanced electronics, the DC-X was designed to take advantage of a burst of technological progress -- and it shows. Thanks to a skin as thin as a credit card, which replaces the heavy aluminum shell of conventional spacecraft, the rocket is light enough to leap into orbit in a single bound, avoiding the wasteful shedding of expensive booster stages. The DC-X is the world's first fully reusable spacecraft, and its myriad computer systems make it easy to launch and repair. It can be fired off by a crew of three, far fewer than...
Back to the earth, back to nature: that sums up the appeal of Indian adornment, plain or fancy. Even the most sophisticated Navajo silver carvings radiate intense, earthy vitality. Small pieces called Rock Kritters -- mostly rings, pins and tie clips -- leap with life: jumping men, running animals, charging warriors. Among the cheapest items available, they are adapted from ancient pictographs found in the Southwest desert...
...Apple Jr., Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, rather delicately puts it, "doing television can improve your access" to official sources. The economics are sweet for TV producers as well. They know that print journalists work cheap, are well informed and are readily available to leap into the electronic maw. Adds John McLaughlin, who in the early 1980s pioneered the food-fight format, in which print journalists engage in opinionated shouting matches: "They're also better performers...
...absence of some sweeping new epidemic, a population boom or a technological leap backward, these pressures are likely to continue...
...your favorite marine mammal into a truck for a drive to the Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...