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...idea is to whip social conservatives into a holy frenzy and get them to the polls, with the expectation that Monica-weary Democrats will stay home. "It's going to be won or lost on turnout," Neumann says. "And I've got to believe we're in pretty good shape there...
Gradually, Wynn's collection is moving toward the mass it needs to define its own shape and establish its own gravitational field. It isn't there yet, and all talk of a "private museum" is beside the point, but you have the sense of a collector with real moxie. This isn't the Getty of Las Vegas, and it isn't meant to be, but Wynn has already nailed a few things that the Getty, with its comparably huge buying budget, ought not to have missed. He has also taken on some sound advisers, led by Edmund Pillsbury, for many...
Call me naive, but I always figured I'd sail through my 30s without having to think too much about my body's physical upkeep. A little jogging, a few vitamins, and I would stay in shape forever, or at least until my 40s. I never counted on my metabolism slowing down. But I've discovered I can't eat as much as I used to without gaining a few pounds, and I have to run farther just to maintain my weight. So when a friend suggested pumping iron as a way to boost my burn rate, I was skeptical...
...after working out with a simple set of dumbbells 60 minutes a week for three months, I'm a convert. Although I did lose a couple of pounds, the more dramatic effect has been in my body's shape. My waistline has developed a more defined curve, and my arms are toned. I've even picked up speed on the treadmill...
Picture an ellipse drawn on the floor. Now take that ellipse and hoist it up, rotating it as it goes. Stop it 13 ft. or so in the air, when it's at an angle to its floor position. Its perimeter, in rising, will have generated a curving shape, an extremely twisted or "torqued" elliptical cylinder. Not a section of a cone (the cone diminishes towards its vertex) but something else, a curvature whose radius does not alter but whose walls constantly change their angle. Then make it out of steel plates, 2 in. thick. You will end up with...