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...recent story line reflects some of the strips lighter humor. Boopsie, the airhead actress has been telling a charming, yet typical tale of all her reincarnations from "a plague-stricken calligrapher... from Gunbad-i-Qabus" to a victim of headhunters in the Malaysian Archipelago. From the highly political to the highly bizarre, Trudeau's Doonesbury is always entertaining and is definitely one of the best strips running in newspapers today...
...responsibility for everything from overseeing the magazine's budget to taking the hassle out of office moves. He arrives from a similar position at our sister publication Fortune, where he was known for his keen sense of judgment and sure grasp of even the smallest business details. On the lighter side, Greg has earned a reputation for showing up fresh on mornings after late-night meetings and socializing, when everyone else was bleary eyed...
...readers eventually grow up, and thus Gaines bears paternal responsibility for a large swath of pop culture from the past quarter-century. Virtually every stand-up comedy routine is a regurgitation of Dave Berg's Lighter Side strips. Underground artists from R. Crumb on have taken inspiration from Harvey Kurtzman (Gaines' editorial genius, who left after four years to launch a doomed satirical magazine for Hugh Hefner) and Mad's dense, rude cartoon style. Parodies of advertising and TV did not really exist before Mad invented the form. Ernie Kovacs, along with Bob and Ray, wrote free-lance for Gaines...
Under the new guidelines, boats must be 30% lighter and have 40% more sail ) area and hulls 20% longer than the former 12-m (13.1-yd.) boats. The boats may mix sail size, hull size and weight in any way they choose so long as, according to a complicated mathematical formula, the numbers add up to 42,000 m (45,900 yds.). From an infinite number of combinations, the boat designers try to find the best mix -- with the help of computers, water tanks and wind tunnels. Their efforts focus on three key areas...
...sail in the computer in a scenario comparable to the winds off San Diego," says Tom Whidden, a longtime Stars & Stripes crew member who runs North Sail, one of the world's largest sailmaking firms. Space-age materials developed in the 1980s have replaced canvas because they are much lighter and allow the sail to stretch less with the wind. The latest sails include laminated polymers and woven fibers that offer greater strength and can maintain sail shape better in all directions, making the sail more able to adjust to wind changes. America 3's technical director, Heiner Meldner...