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...Lowell, Mass., graduate students bend over drafting tables inside the Boott Cotton Mills, which produced textiles from 1835 until 1955. Working with ink on translucent Mylar, one of them delineates the canals that carried water from the Merrimack River to giant turbines beneath the mills. Says Deborah Hurst, from Washington University in St. Louis: "The technology used when these buildings were built is extraordinary...
With their towering masts, vast expanses of Mylar-Kevlar sails, monstrous winches and computerized navigational aids, 12-meter yachts are the nimble-footed heavyweights of their sport. Add the tactical elements of chess: when to defend against an opponent's move, when to ignore it, when to sail off in a different direction. The unmatched combination of required resources has made modern Ahabs of the obsessed competitors...
...summer, the audience cheered. Rock and roll has for so long been a bastion of sexism and racism, its music divided into "white" and "Black" categories, but from the look of this crowd the industry is progressing. The dress code for the day tended toward autre but underneath the mylar and the metal were some sensitive professionals, united by the business...
...Harvey had taken precautions, but the police were too quick. Before Harvey's call-girl business in Orange County, Calif., could put its planned emergency procedures into motion, the local vice squad had seized the firm's computers and software. Recorded on 20 small Mylar discs was evidence that helped convict Harvey on two counts of pimping and one count of conspiracy: the names and credit card numbers of several thousand male customers, descriptions of known and suspected vice-squad members, and careful charts on more than 100 ladies of negotiable virtue, including hours worked, customers serviced...
...star of this Mylar melodrama had her own seductive pathology, much of which came from her bloodlines. A bizarre brood, the Sedgwicks. Their money was so "old" it just seemed to grow wild, like weeds on a lawn, or like the manic-depressive strain that led to suicide for several members of the clan. Uncle Minturn, who kept watch over the Sedgwick gravesite in Stockbridge, Mass., insisted on cheap pine coffins for the family and would lie inside them to test their fit. Edie's father Francis, a golden boy at Harvard in the 1920s who turned to sculpting...