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...PBHA is having a difficult time meeting the already high demand for its vehicles—the seatless van is part of a fleet of seven used to transport materials, student volunteers and children participating in some of its 77 programs...
...over, the building's interior is far from complete. While the upstairs office space is almost finished, with carpeting already on the floor, the railings for the "interior central communicating stair" as it is termed by the architects, have yet to be fitted and all of the auditoriums are seatless...
...ridden, gang-infested Roseland community would have called Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer a baby. The 4-ft., 8-in., 68-lb. runt of a child, whose nickname came from his love of cookies and junk food, ran with a gang called the Black Disciples. Pedaling through the streets on his seatless black bike, in high-price tennis shoes and big, baggy clothes, Sandifer -- coiffed in what neighbors described as his "nappy" hairstyle -- intimidated the neighborhood with his use of knives, fire and guns. Often accompanied by four other youths just as small, he would steal, sell drugs, set fires...
...produced the enthronement of the bathroom as a focus for ingenuity and decorating style. "The Japanese have given up hopes of having a garden, and are spending money for comfortable dwellings," says sociologist Yukio Akatsuka. "The interest is now shifting from the living room to the bathroom." Though the seatless holes in the ground of stereotypical Western dread still exist in many parts of Japan, the newfangled WC is often a marvel of gadgetry...
...Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, 46, a Navy captain, who got first crack at the $15 million backpack. While waiting 18 years to make his first flight, he has been working closely with the MMU's designers to perfect the complex machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel puffs of nitrogen gas. When McCandless fired jets on one side of the MMU, they provided a textbook example of Newton's third law ("For every action, there...