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...being grounded by flight delays with kids in tow can be f-u-n. At least at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, which has joined hands with the Children's Museum of Denver to launch the first children's museum in an airport...
...unromantic. Others argue they are a handy vehicle for improving communication. The chief reasons for their growing popularity, however, are sociological. Men and women over age 30 account for 41% and 32%, respectively, of all new marriages. People coming later to marriage usually have more substantial assets in tow. Moreover, in 45% of all new marriages, one or both partners have been married before. Thus many people have property they want to protect for their children by prior marriages. Says Gail Koff, a founding partner of the law firm Jacoby & Meyers: "These couples understand that marriage is a business proposition...
...troops to arrive were ill-equipped and vastly outnumbered by the Iraqi tank army poised in occupied Kuwait. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were told to expect to go directly into combat, though they carried nothing more effective against tanks than puny Dragon rockets and risky-to-use TOW missiles...
FRAMES. Whether carrying Greg LeMond in a Tour de France alpine climb or a suburban parent with a child in tow, bicycle frames undergo incredible stress, especially where the hollow tubular pieces are joined. For decades, engineers struggled to strengthen frames while making them lighter. That task seemed impossible until manufacturers turned to materials used for jet fighters and missiles. Frames constructed of aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber and various metal combinations have proved to be stronger, stiffer, more shock absorbent and lighter than steel ones. The popular Kestrel frames from Cycle Composites, based in Watsonville, Calif., are made of molded...
...McCrary, with Safire in tow, rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...