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...Writing, of course, is the ultimate romantic job, the soft, fluffy plume of the go-it-aloners, and it has always been a little unpredictable. Langewiesche put it best when he said in a recent interview, “It’s a crap-shoot. We know it. But we are the people who decided we weren’t going to become doctors and lawyers. So it’s a very difficult road to walk. Always has been...
...which is also the title of a manifesto he's working on. (His schedule doesn't leave much time for the usual university research, but as Amadei notes with a laugh, "I can't be fired. I have tenure.") That means applying the hard practices of engineering to the soft problems of humanity, building simple water pumps before fancy suspension bridges. "I've seen children dying in front of me, and that's marked me for life," he says. "I'm doing my little work to change that." To contact Bernard Amadei and Engineers Without Borders, go to www.ewb-usa.org
...young female athletes protect themselves? Many sports-medicine pros recommend that girls work with coaches to strengthen their neck muscles. Another solution, especially for soccer players, is to wear protective headgear. Since its inception in 2002, a San Diego-based company, Full 90, has sold some 200,000 soft, padded headbands to soccer players. A recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that the band reduced concussion risk among a group of Canadian adolescent soccer players. But some experts worry that the bands may spur more reckless on-field behavior. "I fear that kids will put these...
...Soft-Shell Shortage...
...first line of Kita Aquos--a sleek, metallic-silver flat screen with two soft, round bulges at the bottom for speakers, set on a boomerang-footed pedestal--won a shelfful of design awards and a place in European museums like the Pompidou...