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...Siblings Shape...
...digress about the fitness thing. Our seats happened to be positioned by one of the side stage annexes, and Madonna performed two songs about 20 feet away. The woman is in the kind of shape that makes you wonder when she DOESN'T work out. She had muscles in her legs that anatomists have not previously diagrammed. True, after singing and dancing for 20 minutes she needed to towel off backstage, and in her absence we were left with abstract modern dance pieces that made Shanghai Surprise look like a cogent piece of storytelling. But for 47? Good lord...
...already worked wonders for skis, snowboards and the wings of Boeing Dreamliners. New designs using expanded polystyrene foam (EPS), epoxy resins and stiff sheets of carbon fiber add responsiveness and maneuverability to the boards. The buzzword: "flex memory"--or "flex"--the way a board snaps back into its original shape in a turn or maneuver. "The materials have a memory of the original curve, and they return to that curve very quickly," says Firewire's Mark Price. "It gives you that twang-like effect when you're coming out of the turn. It's almost like a bow releasing...
More or less curve? Increasingly, computerized machines help shape the outline (template) to balance the elements for optimum performance...
...19th century and in the desire of persecuted peoples for homelands. The Jews of Eastern Europe were not the only ones who dreamed such dreams; so did Serbs, Czechs, Poles, Croats and others. As the empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate), but it was hardly alone in that. Today's Polish towns of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, for example, went by their German names of Breslau and Bromberg not long ago. Israel...