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...generation of lighter-than-air flying machines that are about to appear in the skies of Europe and the U.S. "I was flying blimps in North Carolina, and I heard these guys had a prototype," the Boston-born Danneker recalls. "I ran to my wife and said, 'We gotta pack.'" The guys were Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, the maker of giant airships based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, which hired Danneker to polish up and test-pilot its 120th creation...
...battery time were clearly superior to the Aiwa's 5.8-in. screen and 2-hr. battery time. Also, it was better engineered for usability. It is solidly built (it has a metal case) and surprisingly trim, while the Aiwa is mostly plastic and clunkier; its battery pack clips on, adding weight and bulkiness. Sony's rechargeable battery, by contrast, is built...
...shouldn't be saved the inconvenience of filling a monthly prescription. There are financial benefits on the line as well: Women would pay less for off-the-shelf pills. Of course, pharmaceutical companies would lose out, as would gynecologists, whose patients' visits would be dramatically curtailed. With opponents who pack a lobbying punch like those two do, it's not hard to see why previous attempts to make birth control pills more freely available might have hit a brick wall...
...even speaks a little French from his years in Montreal. He is a sensitive man who tends a flower garden--a pastime handed down by his mother--and readily accepts his responsibility as a role model. He's single, but he doesn't run with a bar-hopping pack. During the season, he lives west of Boston, drives himself to the ballpark and is unfailingly courteous to fans and free with autographs. During the winter, he's home in the Dominican Republic, working out four hours a day or busy with another project at the church-and-school complex...
...much for Big Tobacco, though - analysts predict the spun-off companies will worry less about the U.S. market as they focus their energies on the burgeoning demand for cigarettes abroad. In tobacco-mad China and Africa, nothing stands between the Marlboro Man and a whole new generation of pack-a-day smokers...