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DENISE SEEGAL Brand Fashioner In October, Seegal, 50, takes the rudder at Nautica, the sportswear line owned by VF Corp. since 2003. After quitting Liz Claiborne in 2000 because of a spat with the CEO, Seegal went to Jennifer Lopez's clothing company, Sweetface Fashion; she boosted sales to about $250 million last year by expanding licensing deals to such categories as jewelry and shoes. Now Seegal must steer Nautica, which has struggled with weak sales and an inconsistent image, to calmer seas...
...With daylight fading, the officers have toiled for an hour to make the fishing vessel inoperable, securing the wheel and rudder and applying a tow line. Orange life vests are dispatched to the Indonesians (most of whom decide to use them as comfortable seats). While the small, unstable vessel pitches and rolls, the officers search for further evidence in the bilge water and interview the fishermen about their voyage. They also try to explain to the detainees - skinny boys and craggy grandfathers who live on fish and a cup of rice a day - what will happen to them. Cummins wants...
STEERING The brothers' most important achievement was their three-dimensional control system: it's why their Flyer worked when other planes didn't. The Wrights realized a plane could not be turned with just a rudder, like a boat; it had to bank into turns to stay under control...
...directional control, the Wrights created wing warping--twisting the wings to facilitate turning. The pilot's torso rests in a wooden hip cradle that is connected by wires to both wings' rear corners and to the rear rudder...
...increased lift causes the Flyer to bank into a turn. The rudder keeps the turn under control...