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...Architect Michael Graves' maple, brass and lacquered wood single-bed unit fetches a breathtaking $19,500. But Memphis' business-minded president Ernesto Gismondi, who also owns the highly successful Artemide line, is pushing for more marketable designs and prices. Memphis' latest edition sports straighter legs, more illuminating lamps and affordable price tags. "Fust," a metal-and-wood side chair by De Lucchi, for instance, sells...
...effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated, the wings kept the boat from sliding with the wind when heeling and helped it stand straighter when tacking. The configuration allowed Lexcen to use a sleeker hull design so that the boat's wetted surfaces were smaller than on conventional twelve-meters, thus reducing drag...
Because beam weapons are largely unaffected by the tug of gravity, they could be aimed straighter than the proverbial arrow. In space, laser beams would have almost infinite range, as NASA showed when it bounced laser light off small mirrors left behind by the Apollo astronauts on the moon. (At lower altitudes, laser beams, like any light, are readily diffused by clouds and even fog.) Charged particles, on the other hand, would be influenced by the effects of the earth's magnetic field. But researchers are working on machines that shoot particles with no electrical charge, like simple hydrogen...
...remarks to an American President 6,000 miles away, "this is a political matter. You need to get closer to Saudi Arabia. Maybe you need to shake hands with King Hussein [of Jordan] after he was on no-speaking terms with your predecessor, Mr. Carter." Then, drawing himself even straighter, the Prime Minister shouted: "To us it is our life!" His fist crashed onto the table. "Our homeland!" Crash! "The land of our fathers and sons!" Crash! "Judea and Samaria will be for the Jewish people for generations upon generations!" Crash...
...teaching her own daughters to stand even straighter and stronger. "Conceptions of beauty start in the family," says Harvard Psychologist Jackie Zilbach, "and they start very young. Little girls tend to follow their mothers' notions of beauty." The previous generation of mothers had not put much store in exercise, for themselves or their children. But members of the Jane Fonda generation have remade their own bodies, and are encouraging their lithe young daughters to start from scratch. In Chicago, new mothers are flexing the arms and legs of their month-old babies in an infant aerobics course. By the time...