Word: yachting
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...spacecraft to fly powered by direct solar radiation [SCIENCE, March 5], noted that the idea goes back many years but failed to mention the contribution of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Back in 1964, he published a short story about an international race to the moon via "sun yacht." In The Wind from the Sun, Clarke detailed the competitors' various sail designs and their resultant difficulties in tacking to keep the sails facing the sun while making one orbit around the earth to gain escape velocity for breaking away and heading out to the moon. WILLIAM M. STEIN Arlington...
...student protestors travelled from the Rockefeller Plaza to yacht clubs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leaving leaflets with worker's testimonies about Harvard's wages on them...
...throne, are reportedly engaged in the hottest epistolary relationship since Heloise and Abelard, or at least since Larry Hagman and Linda Gray toured in Love Letters. According to British tabloids, Bush, 16, fired the first shot two years ago by leaving a photo of herself on a yacht where William was due to holiday. Will, clever boy, tracked down Lauren's address and sent her a photo of himself. Soon words were exchanged via letter and e-mail, and reportedly, the e-mails were hot. Cinemax hot. The two have never actually met, though they could soon, as William...
...gathered around Boies, one of the chief opposing lawyers, John Warden, wandered by and cracked, "Ask him about his wine cellar." Warden might have suggested the reporters also ask about the gorgeous Georgian home that sits above those 8,000 bottles in Westchester County, N.Y., or about the oceangoing yacht, the Northern California ranch, the high-stakes poker games, the nearly annual chateau-to-chateau bike trips in Burgundy and Bordeaux. If Boies doesn't dress in the usual plumage of a flamboyant trial lawyer, it's only because he doesn't care about clothes. Giving up Cravath and what...
...himself has given a considerable amount of money to the University. Before Corporation meetings, he often eats breakfast at the Faculty Club with students on financial aid, his preferred area of donation. In the summer, he virtually resides at the New York Yacht Club--in fact, he's notorious for wining and dining potential contributors there...