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People are more than willing to pay for this entertainment, and the team has been booked for Boston's Fourth of July Celebration, where Weil says more than half a million people are expected. For the highlight of that show, Thomas will jump off the ramp and sail over a Honda Civic...
...goodbye. The lost soul in All My Love Is Gone limns a broken triangle in words as simple as heartbreak: "She was angry/ He was free/ She loved him/ Then she left me." In She's Already Made Up Her Mind, a bereft man needs a friend to "sail with me out to that ocean deep/ And let me go easy down over the side/ And remember me to her." Suicide: that'll show...
...meeting of mayors. Peter Max's art will appear on special postage stamps. A Robert Rauschenberg poster will be slapped up on walls. Placido Domingo will headline a star-studded musical tribute to the planet. And a full-size replica of a 9th century Viking ship will sail in from Norway carrying messages of goodwill from children all over the world...
Special computer programs can identify stress points in the sail. "We can actually fly a sail in the computer in a scenario comparable to the winds off San Diego," says Tom Whidden, a longtime Stars & Stripes crew member who runs North Sail, one of the world's largest sailmaking firms. Space-age materials developed in the 1980s have replaced canvas because they are much lighter and allow the sail to stretch less with the wind. The latest sails include laminated polymers and woven fibers that offer greater strength and can maintain sail shape better in all directions, making the sail...
...race is under way, the sailors will use global position systems to help track their course, and sensors to measure velocity. Onboard computers will supply a steady stream of data on boat performance, wind and sea conditions and other information to aid the crew in trimming, tacking and changing sail directions...