Word: lightweights
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...talked to my family about this. My daughter said, "Dad, you're an actor. It's make-believe." I guess drugs are lightweight compared to seeing your dad kiss other women...
...title fights in professional boxing. Round after round, two pugilists charged to the center of the squared circle and threw leather at each other with calculated violence. Jesus Chavez, 32, a boxer who had been a world champion a weight class lower, was trying to capture the IBF Lightweight Championship belt from hard-punching Leavander Johnson, 35, a tough-talking fighter from Atlantic City. Instead, Johnson would lose his belt, and on Thursday, five days after the fight, he'd lose his life because of injuries suffered in the ring...
...bicycle companies need to measure the size of an aircraft door when designing a new model. But Montague Corp., based in Cambridge, Mass., did exactly that when the Pentagon said it needed a lightweight, foldable bike that special-operations forces could carry as they jumped out of airplanes into enemy territory. In 1999 Montague came up with the Paratrooper, which has a hardened aluminum frame and wheels, and beefy pedals. It weighs only 29 lbs. and can fold in less than a minute to a manageable size (3 ft. by 3 ft. by 1 ft.). The market for parachutists' cycles...
Since nothing this catastrophic ever happened in any of the prior shuttle flights, NASA grew increasingly--and justifiably--confident that the lightweight and durable shielding was the best of an admittedly imperfect set of options. Now there is reason to doubt. "Obviously, the loss of tiles has to be looked at and put to bed," says George Gleghorn, a former chief engineer for TRW's space group and, for six years, a member of a NASA safety-advisory panel...
...There are two more activity-based universal-remote options that every home theater junkie should know about. One is the newest Logitech Harmony (logitech.com/harmony), the 880, which at $250 is no lightweight. Its PC-or-Mac-wizard setup isn't as smooth as the Philips, but the results are even better: as luck would have it, the Harmony did know about the A, B and C buttons my cable box demands. A richer alternative is the Nevo SL from Universal Electronics Inc. It lists for $800. Though it's sold through custom installers, its programmability is not beyond patient...