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...telegraphy teacher back in 1888 when he became tired of the primitive fountain pens of the day and invented a pen of his own. His business surged after he developed the "lucky curve" -a curved ink-feeding device that prevented ink from leaking when the pen was stored upright in a user's pocket. He kept adding technical improvements, caught the public fancy with such gimmicks as the showy orange and black Duofold pen that be came the raccoon coat of the pen indus try in the 1920s, and soon was leading all the world's penmakers...
...Army's Special Forces. These men, who wear distinctive green berets, fashion crude villages of thatched huts, canvas and pine logs in the woods, act out roles as insurgents or villagers battling for control. Defenders whittle branches into spikes, set them upright under leaves to lame invaders. To show the "natives" how to treat wounds, a friendly medic snaps the neck of a rabbit, slits its belly open for a blood-and-guts anatomy lesson. "This is the liver." he explains. "These are the intestines...
...first, the infants are strapped to specially molded plaster stools on which they learn the sensation of sitting upright. Then, after being fitted with their first artificial limb, the children learn that a small movement of a muscle can trigger the hook fingers of an artificial arm. They learn how to use a prosthesis to reach rattles that hang on their beds. Gradually, dexterity improves until they are able to pick up objects and pull themselves upright in their cribs. Even those with deformed feet are taught to walk...
...standards. He even has a right to unmanaged news-"to be informed truthfully about public events." In one of the strongest papal statements in history on religious freedom, Pacem in Terris says also that "every human being has the right to honor God according to the dictates of an upright conscience, and therefore the right to worship God privately and publicly...
...told him Uncle Bob, I understood every word you said." One loses complete comprehension after childhood, but the beauty of Cohan's dance is still powerful and awesome; at the same time it is delightful. I have never seen a dancer change levels (move, for example, from an upright to a sitting position) with such sudden grace; guessing how he will rise to his feet again becomes an interesting game. And he never disappoints his audience by doing it unimaginatively...