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...don’t understand the history of the institution,” says Herrera. “Information is not passed down because every two years, there’s a great turnover and we have to reinvent the wheel...
...first outing, to the 7,620-ft. Mutnovsky volcano, was a day's bumpy ride from Petropavlovsk in a six-wheel-drive bus. Rockslides blocked the road at one point, so we piled out, doing calisthenics to keep warm, while the truck roared and slid around the frozen lava. That night we camped at the foot of the volcano, in a meadow carpeted with yellow rhododendrons and crimson bearberries. While we hauled water from a freezing stream, our cook, Elena Lukyanova, served up meat stew, brown bread, cheese, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and chocolates--one of many feasts...
...years in Germany and Brazil with Volkswagen--comes at a critical time for Magna Steyr, whose parent company hopes to spin it off next year. But Demel's move could be a watershed for the auto industry. As major carmakers sell more specialty cars, such as convertibles and four-wheel-drives, they are contracting out more of their manufacturing--even design and assembly--to suppliers like Magna Steyr. BMW has agreed to allow Steyr by 2004 to assemble its X3 "sports activity" vehicle--the first time BMW has let another firm assemble its cars...
Sheeler approached his blunt industrial locales in a rapture that could only produce a new Romanticism, the Romance of the Machine Age. In Power Series, Wheels, his 1939 picture of a locomotive wheel assembly, Sheeler wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...
...ever bothers to reinvent the wheel, but chairs are another matter. Take the new EVA DVA Child Chairs, for example. Made of the same soft, nontoxic foam used in athletic mats, they come in vibrant colors and can be stacked like oversize blocks to create free-form sculptures or geometric room partitions. Available in 12 color combinations, including orange-red, green-blue and yellow-gray, the chairs are designed for children ages 3 to 6 but are supposed to be sturdy enough to hold adults weighing as much as 300 lbs. That might be a tight squeeze. INVENTORS Lawrence...