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Halvorson says he admired the intricate design and rich symbolism. The building is decorated with lighter colors near the top floors, symbolizing a growing closeness...
...carpet, the paint, even the wood gets lighter," Halvorson says...
Murray Gerber, founder of Prototype & Plastic Mold Co., based in Middleton, Conn., developed lighter, safer, cheaper, longer-lasting industrial bearings for United Technologies in the '90s. Without the tax credit, which went to United Technologies, Gerber doubts that his tiny, $9 million company would have received the R.-and-D. contract. Now those bearings are in wide use throughout the military...
...category after hot favorite Ri blew her chances of gold when, with two lifts remaining, she inexplicably failed to make a second attempt within the allotted time. In the 75-kg class all three medalists lifted the same weight - 245 kg - but under Olympic rules the lighter athlete wins, so the 73.28 kg Urrutia took gold, while Ruth Ogbeifo of Nigeria, weighing in at 74.22 kg, snatched silver from the 74.52 kg Kuo Yi-Hang of Taiwan. The idea of women weight lifting may still suprise some people, but as Jimenez Mendivil said after her win, "This is a sport...
...approach soldiers with their hands hidden. Invariably, not everyone gets the message, which led a soldier to throw him to the ground, cuff him and have him taken away to jail. "I later found out," the unidentified private said ruefully, "that the man was asking me for a lighter...