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Take Fritz Opel, 61, who is happily enjoying retirement with his wife Jeri, 52, and his stepson Jordan, 13. Opel's 35-year-old twin sons had long ago flown the coop, but downsizing was not in the cards. After retiring from his marketing-executive job, Opel wanted to enjoy the high life. So in 2003 he plunked down $1.7 million to build his dream home in San Diego, complete with a pool and three-tier waterfall, a wine cellar for a 600-bottle collection, a four-car garage, a 500-sq.-ft. kitchen and five bathrooms--all just...
...other skyscraper fires, staying inside might have been exactly the right thing to do. In the case of the Twin Towers, at least 135 people who theoretically had access to open stairwells--and enough time to use them--never made it out, the report found.Since the early days of the atom bomb, scientists have been trying to understand how to move masses of people out of danger. Engineers have fashioned glowing exit signs, sprinklers and less flammable materials. Elaborate computer models can simulate the emptying of Miami or the Sears Tower, showing thousands of colored dots streaming for safety like...
...national sales team. Dads are also getting in on the act. Mike Gatten projects up to $3 million in sales this year for his Miracle Blanket, designed in desperation to calm a colicky infant. Rosie Herman, of Tomball, Texas, worked 15 years as a manicurist before giving birth to twin girls and then noticing that the tasks of motherhood were drying out her hands (imagine changing a dozen diapers a day). She cooked up an exfoliating, moisturizing formula in her kitchen, then juggled eight credit cards and even resorted to bartering to get her One Minute Manicure business...
...chilly predawn darkness blankets the small cowboy camp called Twin Buttes, a cedar-covered knoll in the high desert of northwest Arizona. Another day of the fall roundup at the Double O Ranch begins as six sleepy cowpunchers stir from their bedrolls and head for the campfire's warm glow. Beyond the flames is the covered cook wagon, sides of beef hanging outside and a bag of flour sitting within. After wolfing down biscuits, meat and gravy, the six men pull on their chaps and walk slowly to the corral to saddle the horses and head...
Five hours have passed since the riders left Twin Buttes. A hot autumn sun has burned away the dawn's biting chill, and the cowboys have gathered about 100 head of cattle from among the cedars and hillocks. Knox watches as they herd the cattle into a dusty pen. On horseback the cowpunchers separate five long-eared calves that escaped spring branding and guide them, along with their mothers and a few strays, into a smaller enclosure...