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...NIKE AIR MAX The seamless, blow-molded cushioning technology has improved with each new model since it was introduced in 1993. And the latest incarnation of the running shoe is the sleekest, lightest and most comfortable yet. The needs--and feet--of runners vary, but for generalists who just have to do it, this is as elegant a mileage earner as has ever been designed...
...diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer blend. As Whitbread veteran Merritt Carey, one of the two self-described "bow chicks" on the women's team, says, "Even idiots sailing a fast boat every day can do a pretty good...
...turnout seemed to be lightest in student areas," said election commissioner Thomas J. Hartnett. "I would have thought that with the U.S. senatorship at stake, they would have come out in huge numbers...
...senator from Indians, he was not used to the scrutiny and viciousness that characterizes the national press corps. While he did provide them with plenty of ammunition, he never even had a fair chance. After a few mistakes, most probably caused by inexperience, the press decided Quayle was the lightest of lightweights...
Those are still the characteristics of virtually all the world's electric vehicles, which are powered by cumbersome battery systems. The traditional lead-and-acid batteries require 100 times the weight and 30 times the space of conventional gasoline tanks to push even the lightest cars a fraction of the distance -- less than 100 miles at 25 m.p.h. Nickel-cadmium batteries provide 50% more power but at eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile...