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When Andy Wardley first started entering kite-flying competitions back in the mid-1990s, hardly anyone was doing elaborate tricks. Instead, judges evaluated contestants on such technical skills as precision steering and control. Part of the problem was that kites weren't designed to let flyers do things like back spins and flips. So Wardley decided to make his own model, the Airbow, inspired by the tetrahedron-shaped kite invented by Alexander Graham Bell. At once stable and easy to fly, it allows trick flyers to perform stunts like stopping and restarting in midair. "It's like flying a helicopter...
...bribed members of a prominent political party-rumors that he denies. Nor was that his first brush with accusations of financial impropriety. In 1999 Indian officials charged that he had violated the country's strict foreign-exchange rules when he sponsored a Benetton formula-one racing team in the mid-1990s. Those charges were dismissed in court, but they've left Mallya with the feeling that he's being persecuted by India's bureaucrats. "Being chairman of the UB Group counts for nothing in this country," Mallya complains...
...training ground and bolt-hole. Evidence from the several hundred JI operatives arrested and interrogated in the region over the past two years indicates that the MILF has maintained close links with JI?including offering training facilities for hundreds of its recruits?almost since JI's inception in the mid-1990s. JI's alleged former operations chief Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, made this clear to his interrogators after his Aug. 11 capture. "Large numbers of Indonesian members of Jemaah Islamiah are hiding in the Philippines and are supporting the MILF," he stated baldly...
...course, that assumes the thing works. China's space record is mixed. Beijing launched its first satellite in 1970--which broadcast back to Earth the Maoist anthem The East Is Red--but that program suffered a string of disastrous explosions in the mid-1990s. The Shenzhou has flown only four times in unmanned trials, in contrast with the Mercury program, which NASA tested more than a dozen times before Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961. All four Shenzhou craft returned from orbit, but not all accomplished their missions. The Shenzhou II is widely believed to have...
Fats have more flavor--a fact that was not lost on the editors of COOKING LIGHT magazine. Since the mid-1990s, they have slipped a modicum of butter into their recipes. "You have to make food enjoyable," says Jill G. Melton, senior editor of COOKING LIGHT (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner). "If something tastes bad, you're not going to want it again...