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...tents, cuddle up in adjustable-temperature sleeping bags, roast game hens in "outback ovens." "People don't want to go outdoors and get dirty and wet," explains Tom Huggler, author of The Camper's and Backpacker's Bible. "They want to be safe and comfortable, and they want a smooth experience." And they are willing to pay for it. According to the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, sales of camping and backpacking equipment are expected to reach $1.3 billion this year, after climbing nearly 20% last year...
...Smooth-experience campers will soon have their own lavish shrine. On Sept. 13, R.E.I., a national retail cooperative that sold $448 million worth of outdoor equipment and clothing last year, will open the doors of its 80,000-sq.-ft. flagship store in Seattle. Spanning more than a two-acre city block, the store will feature a mountain-bike test trail encircling a 35-ft. man-made waterfall, and a "rain room" courtesy of Gore-Tex in which customers can try out foul-weather wear...
...much salesmanship and too much smooth-talking, Bob Dole is a plain-spoken man," Powell said. "A man of strength, maturity and integrity. He is a man who can bring trust back to government and bring Americans together again...
...when correctly situated, a tooth on the rim of a wheel, a gear tooth as the technical boys prefer to call it. But with the institution of smooth wheels--and here's the key reason why the wheel became broken--the cogs were all cut off. Just hacksawed and sanded over. And there they were, floating about the machine, like some half-witted pieces of steel, and then, then there they went getting caught up, in, about, behind, all around, and even, you know where...
...most striking is the Red Pyramid, known by the reddish tinge its iron oxide-rich stone takes on in the light of the setting sun. It is the first pyramid in the classic smooth-sided shape so familiar to schoolchildren. Previously, only step-sided pyramids had been built (a shape that was also seen in Mesopotamia and turned up, much later, in Latin America). It was Snefru who conceived of the more difficult smooth-sided form. "He made the intellectual jump," says Rainer Stadelmann, director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. Enlisting two of his sons as architects, Snefru...