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...Everglades, a unique mixture of rain forest, wildlife refuge and the world's largest cultivated organic soil bed, stretches 100 miles from Lake Okeechobee in the north to Florida Bay at the state's southern tip. Once the marshland measured an average 45 miles in width; today it extends 35 miles. Little of the land is in its pristine state. Huge tracts have been drained for agricultural and residential development, and thousands of miles of man-made canals have diverted the water from natural channels. Even much of the 62% of land lying within the Everglades National Park...
...that was 1.33 times as wide as it was high. But in the early '50s, competition from television (whose screen shape is a narrower 1.23 to 1) brought box office desperation and technological innovation. Hollywood started turning out films in CinemaScope and other processes that virtually doubled the width of the movie screen. The point was to give audiences an experience that they literally could not see on their small screens at home. But when the studios learned to stop worrying and love TV as a huge and unquenchable market for their films, one problem remained: how to squeeze...
...bolt of cloth was sent along to Beverly Hills Tailor Frank Mariani, who makes all of Reagan's suits. He went to work with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing his customer's taste: two-button coat, medium-width lapels, pleated trousers and six buttons on the fly. For $1,200 the suit was a beauty, and Mariani suspected back then that it might be destined for fame. "The President likes his clothes," explains Mariani. "He builds a fondness for them...
David Kidd is dressed in a shirt that David Kidd is dressed in a shirt that may once have been tucked in. His grimy university necktie ends a palm's width above his beltless pants. The trousers are a baggy rumple. This is a collegiate champion, a star...
...page rule book that specifies everything from the width of the lines on the court to the length of the fuzz of the ball places no restriction on the size f dimensions of the racquet. The United States Tennis Association rule number four states only that the racquet is the implement used to strike the ball...