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After coming in fourth at the East Stroudsburg tournament two weeks ago--forfeiting the last match for medical purposes--Volpe was in top form in Vegas, as he captured seventh place in the 184-pound weight class...
GOAL To be, pound for pound, the best fighter in the world...
After reviewing the most promising new technologies--and meditating endlessly on the train--Yamada felt he was prepared to design a digital camera like no other. The fruit of his cogitations is about the size of a videocassette and weighs in at just over a pound. But the genius of the RDC-i700 camera is revealed as its top flips up to display a bright, 3.5-in. touch-sensitive screen--a window on the World Wide Web that surfs the Internet, records voice memos, accepts scribbled notes and drawings in 16 different colors and receives and sends e-mail...
...just what he was doing one day in 1976, driving along a highway with his family during a month-long summer vacation. Random thoughts flitted across his mind--a $100,000 note he had co-signed for a relative, now unexpectedly due; the news from Britain about the pound, which had risen to around $2; yes, and the Kremer Prize. Why, he mused, had no one been able to claim the [pound]50,000 offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer for the first man-powered flight around a mile-long, figure-eight course? "Then a light bulb went on above...
Emboldened by his success with Condor, MacCready set his sights on a second Kremer Prize, [pound]100,000, to be awarded this time for the first crossing of the English Channel by a man-powered aircraft. Piece of cake. In 1979 a greatly improved version of the Condor, the Gossamer Albatross, successfully flew across 23 miles of Channel water...