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...plane I'm riding in is itself a flying data-collecting instrument, with an air- sampling rod protruding from its nose and three radar units fastened to its nose, belly and tail. In addition, it has a pipe in the fuselage for launching sensor-loaded canisters known as dropwindsondes, sleek probes that take continuous readings of wind speeds, temperature, pressure and humidity as they parachute down. By combining the data obtained by multiple dropwindsondes, computer models can recon- struct the environment both inside and outside a hurricane, identifying conditions that feed or sap its strength or steer...
...best-known work, Portrait of a Marriage - based on a memoir by his mother, novelist Vita Sackville-West, found after she died in 1962 - chronicles his parents' devoted, if unconventional union. DIED. EDWARD LARRABEE BARNES, 89, architect whose functional houses and skyscrapers represented a humane approach to the sleek Modernist style; in Cupertino, California. A proponent of simplicity in design, he once said that most architectural ideas could be expressed on the back of an envelope...
...make Juan hip, the Colombians have hired a crack team of advertising veterans from New York City--based Sawyer Miller--the same people who helped pork become synonymous with "the other white meat." The group has created sophisticated black-and-white magazine ads that direct readers to the sleek new friendsofjuan.com which gives tips on how to brew the perfect cup and offers free samples of Colombian coffee. At the same time, high-rent entertainment p.r. firm Rogers & Cowan managed to work Juan's logo into the final season of Friends and finagled an invitation for the mustachioed coffee grower...
Daslu devotees are not concerned that the store's intimacy will be lost in the sleek new environs. The biggest conundrum they face is what to wear to the new store's inauguration party. --BY GEORGE EPAMINONDAS
...with beads and coins. At Miu Miu, coats dripped with small mirrors. For this winter, Hedi Slimane at Christian Dior Homme is offering floor-length kilts. A similar sense of indulgence, if not flamboyance, was evoked by clothes that went in the other direction. Suits that were spare and sleek were also impeccably cut in plush fabrics. The unifying notion was the acknowledgment that just as for some women, there are men who appreciate and enjoy wearing well-made, chic clothing for their own edification, not that of their boss or wife...