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...vast majority of U.S. drug research is conducted by pharmaceutical companies, but few experts trust them to do head-to-head matchups. It's just too easy for a company to tilt the odds in its own favor by choosing the weakest rival drug or by playing around with dosages or the patient-selection process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why New Drugs Don't Live Up to the Hype | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes. It's always the same head at the helm." He even notices that the portraits always tilt slightly downward, preventing glare and intensifying the gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Ming to Kim | 9/23/2005 | See Source »

...GRAVITY MAX Taichung, Taiwan Located in the Discovery World theme park, Gravity Max is the world's only "tilt coaster." That means it's not just the cars that move. The track does, too, tilting at a terrifying 88-degree angle as screaming riders hurtle through space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Loop | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...triple crown when it opened earlier this year, notching up the fastest speed (205 km/h), the tallest ride (139 m), and the big-gest drop (127 m). Numbers don't lie. Gravity Max Taichung, Taiwan Located in the Discovery World theme park, Gravity Max is the world's only "tilt coaster." That means it's not just the cars that move. The track does, too, tilting at a terrifying 88deg angle as screaming riders hurtle through space. Cyclone New York A 1927 creation on New York City's Coney Island, this ride was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Loop | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...took an X-Acto knife on one of our little models," Stumpf recalls, "and I just cut that slip in there. I knew right away it would work." Flex and absolute structural integrity without gimmicks: the chair is its material and structure. In addition, the designers engineered a novel tilt mechanism. Because the pivot is forward, at a point behind the knees, leaning backward in an Equa does not lift one's feet off the floor inexorably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Looking Good Is Not Enough | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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