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Kneeling before a 400-lb. concrete obelisk in the hills northwest of Los Angeles, Maureen Clemmons mutters a prayer to the ancient Egyptian god of wind. An hour passes. Then a strong gust straightens the lines that attach the obelisk to two nylon kites, shaped like the ones used in parasailing. Soon the kites flip the obelisk and drag it across a grassy field. Clemmons and her 12 assistants erupt in cheers...
...wore a nylon-type scarf on his head, covered by a white headband...
...perhaps the most stunning piece was Edward Derwent's Dante's Inferno (1986). Although loosely based on Dante's allegory, the tapestry, a scintillating combination of glass beads and nylon thread, challenging the very medium of tapestry...
...wind whipped through Magazine Beach as a handful of red-nosed, nylon-clad crew athletes waited outside a roped-off area...
Consider Mike Carr, an environmental engineer and paraglider pilot from Denver who last year survived a bad landing that smashed 10 ribs and collapsed his lung. Paraglider pilots use feathery nylon wings to take off from mountaintops and float on thermal wind currents--a completely unpredictable ride. Carr also mountain bikes and climbs rock faces. He walked away from a 1,500-ft. fall in Peru in 1988. After his recovery, he returned to paragliding. "This has taken over many of our lives," he explains. "You float like a bird out there. You can go as high...