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When Andy Wardley first started entering kite-flying competitions back in the mid-1990s, hardly anyone was doing elaborate tricks. Instead, judges evaluated contestants on such technical skills as precision steering and control. Part of the problem was that kites weren't designed to let flyers do things like back spins and flips. So Wardley decided to make his own model, the Airbow, inspired by the tetrahedron-shaped kite invented by Alexander Graham Bell. At once stable and easy to fly, it allows trick flyers to perform stunts like stopping and restarting in midair. "It's like flying a helicopter...
...accurate, I respectfully submit that something is terribly wrong with the process. Something is wrong when what we know to be true of Masten cannot be communicated to or impressed upon a president who must decide who is a risk, or, as in this case, a gift. --Lynn Wardley, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University
Masten said he regrets that Harvard, "through a failure to tenure from within, simply let evaporate the intellectual vibrancy represented by a list that includes Phil Harper, Meredith McGill, Wendy Motooka and Lynn Wardley. It's a distinguished diaspora...
...British blacksmith. As a girl, Ann was troubled by thoughts of sin and salvation. At her father's insistence, she married Abraham Stanley, to whom she bore four children-all of whom soon died. At 23, she joined the revivalist following of two emotional Quakers, James and Jane Wardley. The Wardleys became convinced that Ann was nothing less than the second incarnation of Christ. Later, it was revealed to Ann in a vision that she was Mother Ann-Ann, the Word. She had attained spiritual peace at last; she devoted the rest of her life to showing others...
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