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...plane was formed of space-age plastics, but its mission was inspired by ancient legend. The goal: to see whether man could fly under his own power across 74 miles of Aegean waters, much as a mythological Greek named Daedalus once escaped his island prison on Crete by fashioning wax and feathers into wings and soaring to freedom. Last week, in a historic attempt to re-create that flight, a team led by engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in bringing the myth back to life. For an arduous 3 hr. 54 min., Kanellos Kanellopoulos, 31, Greek Olympic...
Leno often appears as the guest host on the "Tonight Show" and on "Late Night with David Letterman." He also tours comedy clubs around the country and has appeared in movies including "Americathon" and "American Hot Wax...
...longest while, it seemed the Yanks didn't know how to win or lose. Speed skaters sore at the world threatened to hire attorneys, and a few clubhouse lawyers were pushing bobsleds. Cross-country skiers straggled in and blamed the wax; slow lugers cursed the friction tape on their sleds. Acting ; defensively only in the press conferences, America's fly-and-die hockey team spoiled rousing 7-5 losses to Czechoslovakia and the U.S.S.R. with rancid asides. "If they hadn't got that lucky second goal," Coach Dave Peterson said of the Czechs, "they might have tanked...
...neutrons emitted by portable particle accelerators. These neutrons would provoke fission reactions within any nuclear warheads on board and release detectable streams of neutron and gamma-ray emissions. The scheme is feasible, say U.S. experts, but could be foiled by shielding the warheads with thick layers of water and wax. "We looked at that technology very, very carefully a couple of years ago," says one U.S. official, "and we are skeptical...
Think about it: 15 sweaty young men, their rock-hard bodies poured like wax into their butt-snugging uniforms--their muscles tightening up, contracting, gently, forcefully--ouch...