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...Chairman Alan Greenspan was flying back to the U.S. from Switzerland when his airliner was ordered to turn back. He reached vice chairman Roger Ferguson by phone as soon as he could, and Ferguson coordinated contacts with Reserve banks and Governors both in Washington and around the country. The goal: to make sure U.S. banks would keep functioning...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan was flying back to the U.S. from Switzerland when his airliner was ordered to turn back. He reached vice chairman Roger Ferguson by phone as soon as he could, and Ferguson coordinated contacts with Reserve banks and Governors both in Washington and around the country. The goal: to make sure U.S. banks would keep functioning...
...seem so strange anymore. That's because an unusual cornucopia of natural sweets ranging from horned kiwano melons to star fruits are popping up in local stores. "We're such a mixed country now that fruits from ethnic grocers are inching their way into mainstream supermarkets," says Roger Meyer, owner of San Diego's Valley Vista Kiwi Farm. Coming soon: Cuba's mamey sapote (which tastes like a cooked sweet potato), the yellow kiwi (smoother, less tart than the green type), and the jackfruit (fibrous, fleshy, richly flavored). Then there's the Vietnamese dragonfruit, a crunchy cactus that one gourmand...
...brand, Heelys, top, features a single removable "stealth skate" in each heel that lets users walk or, with wheels engaged, zoom up to 32 m.p.h. They're not a far cry from the old wheeled shoes that were briefly popular in the '70s, bottom. But Heelys inventor Roger Adams claims sales this year have doubled every month; 200,000 units were shipped in July. Rollerbladers, get ready to step aside...
...calf muscles. Gravity boots became the yuppie home-fitness system de rigueur after Richard Gere dangled from an exercise bar in American Gigolo. In the late '80s teenagers trying to make the basketball team were bounding to school in Strength Shoes guaranteed to boost their dunk shots. Now, inventor Roger Adams is hoping Heelys, a trainer with a detachable wheel in the heel, will precipitate the newest skating fad. (Notebook recommends them only for the coccyx-negligent.) And a Swiss company's shoes simulate the way tall Masai tribesmen walk with a rocking, convex sole they call "the smallest fitness...