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...crowd sits on their hands. They seem to be listening. Then it starts raining and Chen's words are lost in the patter of drops on the canopy roof...
Roni Bowers' life looked a lot like something out of The Mosquito Coast: she and her family lived on a 55-ft. houseboat with two bedrooms and a solar-powered refrigerator. They collected rainwater in tanks on the roof, which they filtered for drinking. From their home base in Iquitos, they motored back and forth along a lush 200-mile stretch of the Amazon, making regular stops at some 50 villages to set up volleyball nets, read Bible stories and show religious films off the boat's generator. For Roni, everyday worries included making sure her adopted son, Cory...
...military historian John Keegan ended his classic study The Face of Battle (published a year after the last helicopters lifted ignominiously off the American embassy roof in Saigon) by saying that, what with Vietnam and nuclear weapons, "the suspicion grows that battle has already abolished itself." It is pretty to think so. What we have left, in any case, is chronic but localized messes--and terrorism of the McVeigh or bin Laden variety...
RAISE THE ROOF One of the pleasures of driving a convertible is the unobstructed, blind-spot-free field of vision. Taking that idea a step further, Mercedes-Benz has developed a concept car with an all-Plexiglas roof. Engineers are testing different configurations to determine how best to minimize blind spots in real cars. The results could improve all of DaimlerChrysler's cars, not just the roadsters...
...Shortly before 4 a.m., [Johnson and a friend] decided to climb the fire escape using a rope with a hook to get to the top of the roof," said Laura Mikols, a public relations associate at B.U. "There were two other students who acted as lookouts...